Important People
This person helped draft a legal petition to the king suggesting that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies.
Who was John Adams?
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This is a document that declared American independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Though the Americans did not win this battle, they caused more than 1,000 casualties for the British.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This was an incident that occurred in 1773 where colonists were protesting the British policies by seizing British ships and throwing cargoes of tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was a popular leader of the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Committee of Correspondence. He persuaded many colonists to unite against British policy and taxation.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This raised the tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
The document laid the foundation for representative government and written constitutions. It demands various liberties to be granted to the people as their natural rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
These are men the colonies gathered up to help fight the British.
What is a militia?
These were search warrants given to the British soldiers that were used to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.
What are the writs of assistance?
He was a Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread the news of British troop movement.
Who was Paul Revere?
Required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.
What is the Stamp Acts?
The purpose of this document was to establish basic rights of American citizens. This was based off the Magna Carta.
What is the Constitution?
This attack was a daring plan by the Americans to capture a British fort and to take their artillery back to Boston.
What is the attack on Fort Ticonderoga?
This was a secret society of men from the colonies that was formed to oppose British policies.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
This person was an English philosopher who influenced the Constitution of the United States with his beliefs of human rights.
Who was John Locke?
This act was passed by Parliament in 1767 to tax imports to the colonies.
What is the Townshend Act?
This document helped establish the practice of self-government under majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War where colonial troops had fired the "shot heard around the world."
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
This was an organization of colonial women that was formed to protest the British policies.
What are the Daughters of Liberty?
This person was a delegate from Virginia who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
These acts were a direct attack on colonists' traditional rights and liberties.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This document has been called the first written constitution of America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This word means cannons and large guns.
What is artillery?
What was the committee of correspondence?