Acts
Put a tax on all paper and official documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
The leader of the continental army.
Who is George Washington?
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?
Not supporting or agreeing with either side of a disagreement or war
What is neutral?
Slogan used by the colonists to protest new British laws
What is "No taxation with representation"?
Forced colonists to house British troops.
What is the Quartering Act?
A supporter of American colonists’ struggle against Britain
What is a patriot?
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?
The act of not buying goods or services as a form of punishment or protest
What is boycott?
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?
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?
A supporter of Britain during the American Revolution
What is a loyalist?
A protest in which the Sons of Liberty threw British tea into Boston Harbor
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A short-term military force raised from the civilian population
What is militia?
This group made cloth and tea to help boycott British goods
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
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?
Two colonists who rode from Boston to alert residents that the British were coming
Who are Paul Revere and William Dawes?
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?
The complete possession or control of the supply of a product or service
What is monopoly?
This colony was isolated, or cut off, from the rest of the colonies by the Coercive Acts.
What is Massachusetts?
Made it illegal for colonies to trade with any nation other than Britain and the British West Indies.
Soldiers who quickly got ready to fight at a moment’s notice
Who were the minutemen?
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?
The suspension of ordinary law and government in favor of a military government
What is martial law?
Stated that colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What was the Proclamation of 1763?