Causes
This act put forced colonists to pay taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea
What was the Townshend Acts?
A person who remained loyal to the King.
Who was a loyalist?
King George III closed off this water way as a means of punishment to the colonists.
What is Boston Harbor?
These are small groups of men who were trained to go into battle.
What were: militias
Paying for the cost of this event was the first reason the British needed tax money from the colonists.
What was the French Indian War?
This event involved Patriots raiding a British ship and throwing all the tea overboard.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This nickname describes the British soldiers based on appearance.
Who were Lobsterbacks or Redcoats?
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
These colonists wanted a new nation away from King George III.
What were Patriots?
When colonists refused to buy or trade for British goods.
What is boycott?
This event took the lives of 5 colonists and injured 8 of them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
A group of men formed to protest the unfair taxes and laws by the King.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
This ocean was sailed by those traveling back and forth between Great Britain and the Colonies.
What is The Atlantic Ocean?
This man lived in a castle in Great Britain.
Who is King George III?
Who said No taxation without representation because they were unhappy.
The colonists?
This law placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This man was first a British soldier before he became a American General during the Revolutionary Army. Later, our first President.
Who was George Washington?
This large, colonial city where a "massacre" took place
What was Boston, Massachusetts?
The name of the governing body of Great Britain.
What is Parliament?
This former slave lost his life during the Boston Massacre and was called a martyr.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Colonists forced to house British soldiers, British soldiers could not be charged with crimes, the closing of Boston's port
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This African-American learned how to read and wrote poetry as a slave.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
These are the names of the original 13 colonies:
What are Massachusetts (Maine was a part of Mass.), Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Georgia, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware.
This tax proclaimed colonists had to provide clothing, food and bedding to the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This law made the colonists move East of the Appalachian Mountains and out of Native American territory.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?