Events
Colonists, British, and Iroquois versus the French and Indians in this event.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the 1st tax act passed after the F and I War--a tax on molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
The refusal to buy goods to hurt the economy of that business or group.
What is a boycott?
To help the British in the Rev War, who do the British hire as mercanaries?
What are Hessians?
This man was never president but was a prolific writer and inventor. He was a Patriot!
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Crispus Attucks was the first colonist killed in the quest for independence at this event.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The 2nd tax act, placed a tax on anything printed.
What is the Stamp Act?
This government body makes laws in a Britain.
What is the Parliament?
From which country did America get "Florida"?
What is Spain?
He created the engraving of the Bloody Massacre and took that Midnight Ride to warn the British were coming.
Who as Paul Revere?
In this event, the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw crates of tea overboard from the ships.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
These acts were the last straw for colonists--punishment for the Tea Party. The Acts closed the port of Boston and forbid meetings.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
A person who supports independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
1st official battle in the Revolutionary War. Proved colonists could fight effectively.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The British wanted to capture this Sons of Liberty leader at Lexington and Concord, but we’re unable to.
Who was Samuel Adams?
These people got together in Philadelphia to discuss what to do about the British. Our 1st unofficial government.
What was the First (or 2nd) Continental Congress?
In this act, colonists had to feed and give living quarters to British soldiers.
What was the Quartering Act?
A person who disagrees with independence and wants to stay with Britain.
What is a Loyalist (or Torry)?
What did Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys secure for the Continental Army at Fort Ticonderoga?
Who were cannons?
He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Started by Sam Adams after the Massacre, this group did their best to inform/tell every colony what was going on.
What was the Committees of Correspondence?
This 3rd attempt to tax the colonists placed duty on paint, glass, tea, and paper.
What were the Townshend Acts”
To not enforce laws (what the British did with the colonists before the F and I War)
What is salutary neglect?
The British tried to find munitions and 2 Sons of Liberty. The shot heard round the world happened at this trading of gunfire.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This man had been a general in the U.S.’s first army. He became the first president!
Who was George Washington?