Stamp Act
Dice, Paper, Playing Cards, Diplomas
What are items that were taxed?
March 5, 1770
What is the date of the Boston Massacre
Lead, Paper, Glass, & Tea
What are items that were taxed?
What is the Coercive Acts?
The first Continental Congress met here.
Where is Philadelphia?
Tried here if you violated this Act.
Where is Admiralty Court?
He was first person killed in the massacre and is identified as a martyr for the Revolution.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
He was the British Treasurer who came up with the idea to tax the colonists on all British Imports
Who was Charles Townshend?
This act stated that all British government officials and customs officers who are indicted for murder can be tried in England rather than in the colonies before a colonial jury.
What is the 'Administration of Justice Act'?
The Stamp Act Congress met here.
Where is New York?
This was added to the repeal of the Stamp Act because the King felt personally offended.
What is the Declarative Act?
This man famously defended the British soldiers after the massacre and later became our 2nd president.
Who was John Adams?
When the Townshend Acts were repealed, a tax on WHAT still remained?
What is tea?
According to the Intolerable Acts, THIS would happen to a British official accused of a crime.
What is he would be sent to England to stand trial?
The Tea Act was important because most of the members of Parliament financially benefitted from this company and were losing money as a result of colonial boycotts and other actions. Name the company that would monopolize tea in the colonies.
What is the East India Tea Company?
This person addressed Parliament to get the Act Repealed
Who is Ben Franklin?
Who was Captain Preston?
What "pen name" published articles that unified the colonies against the British. This person, who was actually a lawyer, identified these Acts as setting a dangerous precedent against taxation without representation?
Who was A Farmer in Pennsylvania?
Something that colonists strongly objected to was the closing of WHAT port city?
What is Boston?
He created a Plan at the 1st Continental Congress that would have lowered tensions and averted the escalating crisis between England and the Colonies.
Who is Joseph Galloway?
Took place in New York and is known as the Continental Congress or this.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
The number of people who were actually killed.
What is 5?
What city depended a lot on imports, therefore was significantly impacted by the Townshend Acts, and was most angry by British occupation?
What is Boston?
This act demanded that all British troops be able to stay in colonists homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
This was established by colonists who wished to publicize the terrible things the British were doing to them.
What was the Committees of Correspondence?