Acts and Laws
This act made foreign sugar more expensive so the colonists would have to buy British sugar.
This man was a member of the Sons of Liberty organization, who created an influential image of the Boston Massacre called "The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street"
Paul Revere
This man was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Bonus: write the names of the other 4 men who were involved in writing it.
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams, Ben Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman
This word means to illegally transport goods in order to be sold.
Smuggling
This act lowered the price of a certain good to try to force colonists to pay a tax on it and fight smuggling. They ended up throwing this good into the ocean.
The Tea Act
This man represented the British soldiers in court
John Adams
The Declaration was signed on this date.
You need the exact date: Month, Day Year
July 4, 1776
This word means to refuse to use or buy something as a form of protest
Boycott
This act was one of the main reasons why the colonists were initially upset, because it taxed things like playing cards, legal documents and news papers...
The Stamp Act
Media that tries to influence or manipulate your beliefs and actions.
The city where the Declaration was signed.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This phrase/slogan stated the main reason why colonists did not like British tax laws in the 1760s-1770s.
No Taxation Without Representation!
The final act the British passed to punish the Bostonians, which closed the harbor, gave more power to the royal governor, and increased the number of British troops stationed in Bostonians' homes.
This act was known as two different names, one to the British and one to the colonists. What was this act called? (looking for BOTH names)
The Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts
This act forced British soldiers into the homes of the colonists, who had to feed and house them for an extended period of time
The Quartering Act
The number of people total who died in the Boston Massacre was...
Five people
This word means a formal complaint about something.
Grievance
This notable aspect of life in the colonies was chosen to be removed/left out of the Declaration of Independence.
The Proclamation of 1763 stopped colonists from settling in the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, which the British had just won at the end of what war?
The French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years' War)
Name at least two ways in which the image of the Boston Massacre we analyzed was different from what we believe to have actually happened, or one way it could be considered propaganda
Dog
Captain ordering Soldiers to Fire
Soldiers look evil
Innocent-looking, well-dressed crowd
Butcher's Hall
People in crowd look older
No throwing snowballs
No weapons held by colonists
Explain one way in which Enlightenment ideas can be found in the Declaration of Independence.
Natural Rights
Social Contract/Consent of the Governed
Rule of Law
Individual Rights
These two Massachusetts towns were where the first two battles of the American Revolutionary War took place.
Lexington and Concord