Sugar, Stamp, Townshend, Quartering Acts
What is the proclamation of 1763
This person defended the British soldiers during the Boston massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This person would be described as loyal to British authority and rule.
Who is a loyalist?
What is the ropewalker incident?
The reason the Boston port was closed during the Boston Port Act, the first act passed in the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This act actually lowered the tax on molasses because colonists were smuggling goods in to avoid paying the high tax on molasses.
What is the sugar act?
This person led a group of patriots to dump tea in Boston harbor protesting the tax on tea.
Who is Sam Adams?
These people acted as patriots and often participated in boycotts of British goods and services as well as harassing British officials.
Who are the sons and daughters of liberty?
The objects that colonists claimed they were throwing at the soldiers during the Boston massacre.
What is snowballs?
This colony's powers were taken away in electing officials to govern them. They now had appointed officials from England.
What is Massachusetts?
The stamp act was meant to help fund the debt accrued during this time period.
This person drew images depicting the Boston Massacre and also ran to warn the sons of liberty that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This phrase was the real reason behind a lot of the anger colonists felt towards Parliament's decisions.
What is no taxation without representation?
This person was in charge of the soldiers and told his men not to fire upon the colonists.
Who is Captain Preston?
This act forced all British officials accused of a capital crime to be tried in England and no longer the colonies removing the rights to a fair trial.
What is the Administration of Justice Act?
This document gave British officials the right to search ships with no reason during the Townshend Acts.
What is the writs of assistance?
This person was the governor of Massachusetts but an angry mob destroyed his house and burned it down.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
This is the governing body in England that makes the laws.
What is Parliament?
Samuel Maverick, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and one other.
Who are the victims in the Boston Massacre?
What is the quartering act?
This was the only remaining taxed item after the Townshend Acts were repealed.
What is tea?
This person was sent by King George III to quell the growing protests in Boston and enforce the Intolerable Acts.
Who is General Gage?
A refusal to buy goods and services in protest is called.
What is a boycott?
The final result of the Boston Massacre.
What is self defense?
What is Quebec?