An action that shows disapproval or objection to something.
What is protest?
100
British Parliament passed this law that allowed only the British East India Tea Company to sell tea to the colonists.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
100
The British Parliament taxed the colonists as a way of getting money to pay for debt owed from this event.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
A law created or passed by a government.
What is an act?
200
To bring into a country, especially for sale.
What is import?
200
An official public announcement.
What is a proclamation?
200
The Act passed by the British Parliament that taxed printed paper such as newspapers, marriage licenses, pamphlets, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
On December 16, 1773 colonists dressed as American Indians boarded boats in the Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water in this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The name of the historical event that Britain gained land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, and went deeply into debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
The murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves.
What is massacre?
300
A person who represents others at a convention or a conference.
What is delegates?
300
What law was put into place by the British to protect colonists. The law allowed American Indians to have the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
On March 5, 1770 five colonists lost their lives when British soldiers fired at them during this historical event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
The committees set up Colonial governments to let each other know what was happening within the colonies. Samuel Adams set up the first permanent committee in 1772.
What is Committee of Correspondence?
400
The meeting of delegates from twelve colonies, held to present complaints to King George III, to set up a boycott of British goods, and to arrange a second meeting if needed.
What is the First Continental Congress?
400
To protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service.
What is boycott?
400
The law that required colonists to provide British soldiers with housing, food, transportation, and fuel.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
In September 1774 delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss complaints about Great Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
400
One of the laws that was part of the Intolerable Acts that closed down the Boston Harbor until colonists in Boston paid for the lost tea.
What is the Boston Port Act?
500
The colonists were being taxed without having representatives in the British Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
500
The lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States.
What is the Parliament?
500
The Act that taxed goods brought into the Colonies from Britain such as glass, paint, lead, and tea.
What is the Townshend Acts?
500
In October 1765 nine colonies sent delegates to a special meeting in New York after being taxed for items such as printed paper. This eventually caused the law to be repealed.
What is the Stamp Act Congress
500
The laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonists for dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.