Act it Out
The law that taxed only tea that could be imported by the British East India Company.
What is the Tea Act?
The King of England
Who is King George III?
... to 1756 to find when conflict between the colonists and the French reached a breaking point to start this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
Paul Revere sketched an important drawing that shaped how colonists felt about this event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
King George drew a line down the map to keep colonists from settling on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This law said soldiers could housed in colonists' homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
The colonist disguised themselves as these during the Boston Tea Party.
Who are Native Americans?
... to Ohio where this important leader was looking for land after the French and Indian War
Who is George Washington?
What is a militia?
The Boston Port Act was passed in direct response to this protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The law that taxed paper products in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
One of the most well-known Boston citizens in the 1770s, this man was the leader of many protests including the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
... to secret rooms and meeting places to find where this protest organization might be meeting.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The weather in Boston was really cold, allowing this to be readily available for upset colonists to throw at the British soldiers.
What are snowballs or ice chunks?
This Fort was taken without firing a single shot.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
A series of laws passed (and NAMED) by the British in order to get the colonists to listen to them.
What are the Coercive Acts?
This group of Patriots was responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
... on board the Dartmouth, the ship used in this major event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This man is sometimes considered the first to die for independence, ironically.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
These three unalienable rights cannot be taken away by the government, according to John Locke.
What is Life, Liberty, and Property?
This law was one of the first taxes in the British Empire; it taxed this and molasses.
Sugar Act
This ambassador for the Colonies went to England talk about how he feels his "Americanness" as never before.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
...to watch the Continental Congress to watch the signing of this important document, proclaiming freedom from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man formally proposed that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
These three unalienable rights cannot be taken away by the government, according to Thomas Jefferson.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?