Acts
Taxed newspapers, wills, and contracts.
What is the Stamp Act?
Refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
Gathering signatures as a form of protest is called this.
What is a petition?
I was the leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Taxed molasses, wine, and coffee.
What is the Sugar Act?
Threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Sneaking goods to avoid paying taxes is a form of ...
I made a famous speech and said "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
December 16, 1773, colonists dumped tea into Boston harbor causing the Tea Company to lose a lot of profits.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Taxed lead, paper, paint and Tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
Gathering signatures and sending them to the king.
What is a petition?
The uncomfortable feeling between two groups is called...
What is tension?
I made an engraving of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
War that caused the British to start to tax the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
Passed to help the British East India Tea Company.
What is the Tea Act?
Cruel treatment of tax collectors by the colonists to intimidate them.
What is tar and feathering or mock hangings?
Passed by Britain to prevent another war with natives, prevented colonists from moving past the Appalachian Mts.
What is Proclamation of 1763?
I died at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Cyprus Attucks?
Colonists gathered at this event to create a list of reasons they were upset at British Parliament.
What is Stamp Act Congress?
Colonists were forced to allow British soldiers to live in their homes, this was called...
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists signed these agreements and agreed to not import British goods.
What is the non-importation agreements?
Attempt by colonists to relieve tensions with Britain by listing all of their Grievances.
What is Stamp Act Congress?
I wrote Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine
Passed after the Boston Tea Party, led to more colonial unrest.
What are the Intolerable of Coercive Acts?