The French and Indian War Leads to Trouble
Gives British East India Company special advantages in selling tea to the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded ship disguised as Native Americans. The ship was loaded with tea which they dumped overboard.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
A group of colonists that organized activities and protests.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded ship disguised as Native Americans. The ship was loaded with tea which they dumped overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Those who wanted to break away from British control.
Who are Patriots?
New tax on molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
The city that took the bulk of Boston's trade due to the closing of the harbor.
What is the New York City?
Walk out, sit in, parade, and blockade are examples of a...
What is a protest?
On the evening of March 5, crowds of day laborers, apprentices, and merchant sailors began to pelt British soldiers with snowballs and rocks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Those who wanted to remain loyal to British control.
Who are Loyalists?
New taxes on newspapers, dice, playing cards, legal documents
What is the Stamp Act?
The Sons of Liberty had received word from Philadelphia that Captain Chambers was smuggling 18 chests of tea.
What is the New York Tea Party?
A free country.
What is independence?
The Sons of Liberty had received word from Philadelphia that Captain Chambers was smuggling 18 chests of tea.
What is the New York Tea Party?
Those who wanted to avoid conflict and did not want to take sides.
Who are Neutrals?
New taxes on imported paint, lead, glass, paper, tea
What is the Townshend Act?
The expression that many colonists used when explaining why they destroyed the tea.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
Used by the ancient Romans as a symbol of freedom.
What are Liberty Poles?
The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
What is the American Revolution or Revolutionary War?
They justified Britain's taxation on the colonies.
Who are Loyalists?
The British prohibited (forbade) the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
On March 31, 1774, the British Government closed Boston Harbor to trade.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
A way to portray information, especially in a misleading way, to promote a particular point of view in order to make people feel or think a certain way about an idea, event, or person.
What is Propaganda?
After the British destroyed a liberty pole in City Hall Park, a confrontation ensued between soldiers and citizens several days later. The British charged citizens with bayonets, wounding several.
What is the Battle of Golden Hill?
This group was willing to accept whatever the outcome of the war would be.
Who are Neutral?