Acts
People
Events
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

Put a tax on all paper and official documents.

What is the Stamp Act?

100

The leader of the continental army.

Who is George Washington?

100

War fought between the British colonists and the French. Each side had Native American allies, or friends in war.

What is the French and Indian War?

100

Not supporting or agreeing with either side of a disagreement or war

What is neutral?

100

Slogan used by the colonists to protest new British laws

What is "No taxation with representation"?

200

Forced colonists to house British troops.

What is the Quartering Act?

200

A supporter of American colonists’ struggle against Britain

What is a patriot?

200

A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.

What was the Boston Massacre?

200

The act of not buying goods or services as a form of punishment or protest

What is boycott?

200

A group that was formed with representatives from each colony (except Georgia) and met on behalf of the 13 colonies. 

What was the Continental Congress?

300

Gave the East India company a monopoly on the sale of tea to the colonies and put a small tax on tea.

What is the Tea Act?

300

A supporter of Britain during the American Revolution


What is a loyalist?

300

A protest in which the Sons of Liberty threw British tea into Boston Harbor

What was the Boston Tea Party?

300

A short-term military force raised from the civilian population

What is militia?

300

This group made cloth and tea to help boycott British goods

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

400

Closed Boston’s port, stripped the
Massachusetts legislature of its power, and allowed the governor to move trials to Great Britain.

What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?

400

Two colonists who rode from Boston to alert residents that the British were coming

Who are Paul Revere and William Dawes?

400

Battle between 700 British soldiers and 77 militia men on the town green, in which the first shot of the American Revolution rang out. The British were victorious. 

What was the Battle of Lexington?

400

The complete possession or control of the supply of a product or service

What is monopoly?

400

This colony was isolated, or cut off, from the rest of the colonies by the Coercive Acts.

What is Massachusetts?

500

Made it illegal for colonies to trade with any nation other than Britain and the British West Indies.

What is the Restraining Act?
500

Soldiers who quickly got ready to fight at a moment’s notice

Who were the minutemen?

500

Battle in which hundreds of militiamen were able to stand their ground and push the British back to Boston. The colonists were victorious.

What was the Battle of Concord?

500

The suspension of ordinary law and government in favor of a military government

What is martial law?

500

Stated that colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

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