ACTS AND TAXES
Charles Townshend passed...
The Townshend Acts.
The colonists wrote the Declaration of Rights after which meeting?
First Continental Congress.
Commander-in-chief to the Continental Army.
George Washington.
A representative.
A firsthand account of history is a...?
Primary Source.
Name two things the Townshend Acts taxed.
Glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What happened at the Boston Tea Party?
The colonists dumped tea in the Boston harbor.
Thomas Jefferson was from which state?
Virginia.
Militia in Massachusetts who could be ready for fight in 60 seconds.
Minutemen.
A secondhand account of history is a...?
Secondary source.
Name two things the Stamp Act taxed.
Almanacs, playing cards, newspapers, lawyers' licenses.
The colonists started a navy at the...?
Second Continental Congress.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in what year?
1776.
A Person who supported the colonists and separated from Britain.
Patriot.
Interviews, letters, speeches, diaries.
True or False...A tax means the government is PAYING YOU to use an item or product.
FALSE
At the same time as the Navy, what two other things did the colonists start?
An army and postal service.
The Declaration of Rights was...?
A letter of complaint written after the FCC.
A person who supported NOT separating from Britain.
Loyalist.
Give an example of a secondary source.
Textbooks.
What's the Quartering Act AND why would a colonist be unhappy with this?
The Quartering Act allowed the British to use the colonists' homes and...
Why did the colonists start a navy at the Second Continental Congress?
After the Declaration of Rights didn't work out, the colonists knew they had to fight Britain to get independence.
Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson.
British lawmaking body.
Parliament
If someone were to write a book about me and use my diary as a source...what kind of source would they be using?
Primary.