British Laws and Policies
This British law created a small tax on tea and gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea imports to the American Colonies.
Tea Act of 1773
To refuse to buy, use, or go to in order to make a protest or bring about a change.
What is a Boycott?
Colonist protested the Tea Act by dumping 340 crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The first battle of the Revolutionary war that included the "shot heard around the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The Ottawa chief who led a rebellion against the British.
Who is Pontiac?
These acts stated that certain goods could only be traded with England
The Navigation Acts
The killing of a large number of people or animals in a cruel and violent manner.
What is a massacre?
This patriot group was led by Samuel Adams.
What is the Son's of Liberty?
Where Washington's army spent the winter and trained.
This group chose to support neither the British government nor independence.
What are fence-sitters?
Under this law, you were required to provide food and shelter to English Soldiers.
The Quartering Act
The refusal to accept something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument; breaking an unfair law
What is Resistance?
This form of resistance had Sons of Liberty members violently torturing, disfiguring, and humiliating tax collectors and British officials.
What is Tarring and Feathering?
This controversial event occurred when British soldiers shot into a crowd of Patriots.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This smuggler chose to write his name in extremely large font on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
This law gave English Soldiers a general search warrant to search colonial homes, ships and other property.
Writs of Assistance
The term for the first people to inhabit a land or area.
What is Indigenous?
The type of resistance used by John Hancock to import goods into the colonies to get around the Navigation Acts.
What is smuggling?
The treaty that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
A female revolutionary hero who undertook a 40 mile ride to alert the soldiers in her father's militia.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
The law prohibited colonists from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation of 1763
The act of removing a government by force and putting a new government in its place.
What is a revolution?
To avoid paying for British made clothing, this patriot women's group chose to make clothing from home with the homespun movement.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
At this siege, a combination of American and French soldiers beat British General Cornwallis, ensuring American Independence.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The unalienable rights stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?