Acts
An act requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages
Quartering Acts
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the British.
Loyalists
The incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.
Boston Tea Party
One of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Why did the King begin taxing the colonist?
Ton help pay off debt from the French and Indian War
Tax on printed papers, including letters, marriage licenses, newspapers, and playing cards
Stamp Act
Name given to the group who makes English laws. Also, known as the British Government
Parliament
This event describes the meeting of delegates from the American colonies that began in Philadelphia in 1775; the Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and acted as the colonies’ government during the Revolutionary War.
Second Continental Congress
He was sent to warn the colonists that the British were coming
Paul Revere
The document that announced that the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain. The Declaration was approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This date is considered the “birthday” of the United States.
The Declaration of Independence
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
the act of refusing to buy, or engage the services of an organisation or person
Boycott
The conflict between the French and the British, which also involved the colonists and native americans, involving the claiming the territories in north america in the Ohio River Valley.
French and Indian War
I am willing to go to war for my country because I no longer want to live under British rule. Who am I?
(group of people)
Patriots
True or False:
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston comprised the committee charged with drafting the Declaration, but the task fell mainly to Benjamin Franklin, as he was considered the most eloquent writer.
False
Thomas Jefferson was well known for his writing and took on much of the responsibility for drafting the constitution
An act designed to help the East India Company by granting it a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies
Tea Act
Is this a typical Loyalist or Patriot viewpoint:
The King is treating us like children and taking away our rights.
Patriot
Are the following typical Loyalist or Patriot viewpoints:
"We should pay our share of taxes because Britain protected us during the French and Indian War."
Colonies are too far away from England to have representation in Parliament; it's just not practical."
Loyalist
Other colonists thought it best to stay faithful to the British. They were called ______, and were often the wealthy working class and educated business owners. They just wanted the British to stop the taxes. They did not want to go to war with Britain over independence.
Loyalists
True or False
As a class, we looked at a political cartoon that included humiliation in the form of a tarring and feathering of a British tax official or Loyalist.
A British-produced boundary line preventing colonists from settling on lands to the west that were "won" from the French after the French and Indian War.
Proclamation of 1763
The first person to get shot and die during the Boston Massacre of 1770
Crispus Attucks
Was Benjamin Franklin a Loyalist or a Patriot?
Patriot
True or False
Political cartoons are often used to draw the public's attention to actions or missteps by leaders, or to point out a political or social issue of importance.