Taxes
This 1764 act placed taxes on molasses and sugar imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This group, formed by Samuel Adams, led protests and sometimes used violence to oppose British taxation.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This silversmith and Sons of Liberty member created an engraving that portrayed the Boston Massacre as a brutal attack by British soldiers.
Who is Paul Revere?
This British policy allowed the American colonies to govern themselves with minimal interference because the distance from the mother country made it difficult to enforce laws.
What is salutary neglect?
One of the main push factors that led Europeans to explore the world during the Age of Exploration.
What is the search for new trade routes and resources?
This act in 1765 required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
What does boycott mean?
a form of protest that involves refusing to buy goods
Following the Boston Massacre, this future U.S. president served as the lawyer who defended the British soldiers in court.
Who is John Adams?
This was the result of Columbus's voyage on Indigenous people when the Old World and New World shared goods, leading to devastating consequences for native populations.
What are diseases, including smallpox, measles, and influenza.
This 16th-century religious movement, led by like Martin Luther challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and led to the creation of Protestant denominations.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This act in 1765 required colonists to pay for an official seal on legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group of colonial women supported the boycott of British goods by making homemade fabrics, teas, and other goods to replace British imports.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
This is the number of colonists who were killed during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.
What is five?
This 15th-century doctrine provided European explorers with the right to claim land inhabited by non-Christians, often disregarding the presence of indigenous peoples.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
During the Protestant Reformation, King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church and established the Church of England after the pope refused to grant him this.
What is a divorce?
The British passed the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) in 1774 as punishment for this earlier colonial protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This form of public humiliation was used by colonists to intimidate tax collectors and protest British taxation.
What is tarring and feathering?
What was the main reason Britain started taxing the colonies after the French and Indian War?
The British were in debt because of the French & Indian War so they started taxing the colonists to pay back for the war
Explain the Proclamation Line of 1763
Colonists were not allowed to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains because that land was Native American territory after the French and Indian War
This devastating epidemic, which spread across Europe in the 14th century, killed an estimated one-third of the population and significantly impacted European society and economy.
What is the Black Death?
This series of laws taxed items like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea, leading to increased protests.
What are the Townshend Acts?
During British taxation, colonists in Boston created these life-sized, puppet like, figures to intimidate tax collectors and protest British policies.
What are effigies?
Following the Boston Massacre, this Captain was defended in court by John Adams, and was acquitted of murder charges.
Who is Captain Thomas Preston?
These three religious groups—who sought to escape religious persecution and create communities based on their beliefs—played significant roles in the establishment of the 13 colonies.
Who are the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers?
This monarch commissioned Christopher Columbus in 1492 to find a westward trade route to Asia.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?