Orgazinations
Acts
Government
People
Riot/Protest
100
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
What is a patriot?
100
To take action; do something.
What is an act?
100
British politician who as chancellor of the exchequer sponsored the Townshend Acts
Who is Charles Townshend?
100
An American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Who is Sam Adams?
100
A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.
What is a loyalist?
200
A name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.
Who is King George III?
200
A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers.
Who is John Adams?
200
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
Military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
What is a militia?
300
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.
Who is Lord North?
300
An African-American stevedore and sailor, thought to be the first person killed in the Boston massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
To revoke or annul (a law or congressional act).
What is a repeal?
400
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend.
What is the Townshend Acts?
400
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative, elected body of government. Generally, has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries.
What is a parliament?
400
An American attorney, planter, and orator well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
What is a boycott?
500
Passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
500
Cruel and oppressive government or rule.
What is a Tyranny?
500
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
Organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
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