Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Taxes and Laws
Rebels and Rebellions
Causes of the Revolution
100
The trade route between the colonies, Africa, and Europe
What is Triangle Trade
100

A colonial leader who formed committees of correspondence and founded the Sons of Liberty.

Who is Samuel Adams

100
Tax on sugar.
What is the Sugar Act
100
The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped Tea into Boston Harbor in protest of British Taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party
100
this British policy of exporting more than importing
What is mercantilism
200
An economic system where a country exports more than it imports
What is mercantilism.
200

He wrote the pamphlet entitled Common Sense

Who is Thomas Paine

200
A tax requiring colonists to buy stamps for paper products like newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act
200
5 colonists were killed after a fight broke out in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre
200
making people pay extra money on certain goods and services
What is taxation
300
refusal to buy British goods
What is a boycott.
300

This was the name given to the acts placed on the colonists following the events of the Boston Tea Party. Don't look now, but there posters hanging up with the name on them!

What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?

300
a tax passed on paint, glass, paper, and tea
What is the Townshend Acts
300
a war in 1754 between the English and the French and Indians which left the British with lots of debt.
What was the French and Indian War
300
After the French and Indian War, the British were left with lots of this
What is debt
400
a slogan used by colonist- it meant that the British could not tax them without giving them representation in Parliament.
What is "no taxation without representation"
400

King of England during the American Revolution

Who is King George III

400
a law that said the colonists could only trade with the British.
What is the Navigations Acts
400
This group of people, led by Samuel Adams, used boycotts, protests, and violence against British tax collectors
Who were the Sons of Liberty
400
John Locke helped spread the ideas of this movement
What is the Enlightenment
500
a group of people who got together to share information about how to challenge British laws.
What is a committee of correspondence
500

This was the statement by King George forbidding the colonists from moving west [weast] of the Appalachian mountains. 

What is the proclamation of 1763?

500
A tax passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closing, Boston Harbor.
What were the Intolerable Acts
500
colonists who chose to fight for independence from Britain.
Who were patriots.
500
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield were important leaders of this movement
What is the Great Awakening
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