Peace
Protest
Taxation
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100
The treaty officially ending the Seven Years' War was signed in 1763 in this French capital city.
What is Paris?
100
While many colonists considered protest to be a form of patriotism, the British likely considered acts of disobedience to be a betrayal of their country, also known as this.
What is treason?
100
Passed in 1764, this act required colonists to pay taxes on life's "sweets," or luxury goods such as molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
This act, passed in 1765, required American colonists to provide food and lodging to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
In 1773, a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded British ships anchored in Boston Harbor and dumped over three hundred chests of tea; the caffeinated festivity is now referred to as this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The refusal to buy or use certain goods, or to deal with particular people, nations or organizations is a peaceful form of protest know is this.
What is a boycott?
200
Anger over the taxation of paper items resulted in this "congress" in 1765 (North Carolina did not send delegates).
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
200
Philatelists are particularly interested in this act, passed in 1765, that required colonists to pay taxes on printed items such as newspapers and pamphlets.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The indiscriminate killing of five American colonists in the streets of Boston in 1770 is better known as this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Two terms that refer to taxes placed on imports.
What are duties and tariffs?
300
This Ottawa chief managed to unify 40 Native American tribes in an effort to resist westward colonial expansion.
Who is Pontiac?
300
Mobs of Bostonians took to the streets in protest of the act that placed a tax on printed items; they called themselves these, or the male offspring of freedom.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
300
Having repealed some and reduced the burden of others, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer imposed this collection of taxes (on items like tea, glass and paint) to help pay royal officials' salaries
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
"The very devil in politics," or the man who argued that the taxation of paper items was a threat to colonial liberty.
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
These search warrants authorized soldiers and tax collectors to enter colonists' homes in search of un-taxed goods and property.
What are writs of assistance?
400
To make peace with hostile Native American tribes, the British proclaimed in 1763 that colonists could not settle west of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
Women of this North Carolina city organized "tea parties," refusing to drink tea in protest of the Tea Act.
What is Edenton?
400
Most of the taxes imposed on colonists in the 1760s were designed to cover the cost of a military conflict involving the British, French, American colonists, and Native Americans. In the colonies, the war was known as this.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
Also called the Coercive Acts, these "acts" placed Massachusetts under martial law, blockaded major shipping ports and demanded compensation for the destruction of tea aboard British ships.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
This "act," passed in 1765, declared that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
500
To achieve peace with Britain in 1763, France relinquished most of its land east of this river.
What is the Mississippi?
500
In 1774, the imposition of martial law and a blockade of Boston harbor resulted in this gathering of delegates, including George Washington and John Adams, from 12 of 13 colonies in Philadelphia.
What is the (First) Continental Congress?
500
Colonists insisted that the British Parliament had no right to impose taxation without this.
What is representation?
500
This conservative American political movement takes its name and shares its identity with colonial anti-tax demonstrations.
What is the Tea Party?
500
These letter-writing groups organized to share information about colonial resistance efforts.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
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