In the eyes of colonists, this law favored Native Americans over English colonists and established a boundary at the Appalachian Mountains.
What is "the Proclamation of 1763"?
100
He addressed the British House of Commons in 1766 and expressed the American opposition to British taxes.
Who is "Ben Franklin"?
100
One of the most famous colonial protests, it took place in late 1773...perhaps in the afternoon?
What is "the Boston Tea Party"?
100
This is the ratio of British pounds to British shillings during the time following the French-Indian War.
What is "1 to 20"?
100
It's what you call the documents that allowed British officials to enter any location to search for smuggled goods.
What are "writs of assistance"?
200
This act, which created a new, widespread tax, created such opposition among colonists, that the British Parliament repealed it in 1766.
What is "the Stamp Act"?
200
After the passage of the Stamp Act enraged the colonies, this member of the Virginia House of Burgesses convinced the House to issue a resolution that claimed it had the sole right to lay taxes on the people of Virginia.
Who is "Patrick Henry"?
200
This man's engraving of the Boston Massacre depicted British soldiers firing upon a peaceful crowd. The image spread around the colonies and increased colonial support for stronger opposition to British interests.
Who is "Paul Revere"?
200
George Grenville convinced Parliament to pass laws that removed the right to trial by jury for this type of criminal.
What is a "smuggler"?
200
The rag figures representing British tax collectors that colonial protesters burned as part of their protests.
What are "effigies"?
300
This law gave a single British company a virtual monopoly, or sole control, over a lucrative commodity in America.
What is the "Tea Act"?
300
This African and Native American dockworker was among the fallen at the Boston Massacre in 1770.
Who is "Crispus Attucks"?
300
This group of patriot women encouraged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other homemade goods rather than purchase these items from British merchants.
What are the "Daughters of Liberty"?
300
According to the Stamp Act, this kind of material required a tax and subsequent stamp of approval.
What is "printed material"?
300
An organized movement where people refuse to buy a certain product or commodity.
What is "a boycott"?
400
This is the name Americans gave to the set of laws designed to punish the people of Massachusetts for their rebellion. The laws closed Boston's harbor and allowed British soldiers to trespass private property during peacetime.
What are "the Intolerable Acts"?
400
He said of the American colonists, "We must master them or totally leave them alone."
Who is "King George III"?
400
Following the repeal of the most of the Townshend Acts, colonists continued reporting their complaints against Great Britain through these "letter writing" organizations.
What are "committees of correspondence"?
400
In 1768, fearing colonial unrest, Parliament sent troops to this city to control the unruly colonists there.
What is "Boston"?
400
Biased information that is used to sway public opinion.
What is "propaganda"?
500
This 1774 law transferred the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River out of American hands.
What is the "Quebec Act"?
500
He helped found the Sons of Liberty.
Who is "Samuel Adams"?
500
On the same day that Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in response to effective colonial protests, it passed this law which stated that Parliament had the sole right to tax British colonies "in all cases."
What is "the Declaratory Act"?
500
The Boston Tea Party protesters dressed up like Native Americans of this tribe.