British Control
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The Sons of Liberty used propaganda about this March 5, 1770, event to arouse resistance to British authority.
What is the Boston Massacre?
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the rebels.
Who are the Patriots?
Militias
This famous group was created to oppose British policies.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
This act, passed by Parliament, was a tax on trade for anything that required molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
This man, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, led opposition to the Townshend Acts.
Who is Samuel Adams?
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the British.
Who are the Loyalists?
What is the Currency Act.
This act placed duties on tea, glass, paper lead, paint which colonists were required to by from Britain.
Who is the Townshend Act?
Parliament passed this to raise money to help pay for the cost of defending the colonies and anything with paper was taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
This man defended the redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
These laws were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists.
What are the Coercive Acts?
This group was formed to communicate how the acts were affecting other colonies.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
During the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised themselves as these people.
Who are Native Americans?
This member of the House of Burgesses led resistance to the Stamp Act.
Who is Patrick Henry?
This man, along with four others, died in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This man became famous for spreading the word about the British troops' movements.
Who is Paul Revere?
This act lead to the Committee of Correspondence to meet formally. The act was a series of controlling laws.
What is the Intolerable Act?
A man who is selected to attend a formal meeting.
After 1763, British soldiers were stationed in the colonies to keep the peace between these two groups.
Who are the colonists and Native Americans?
This event happened as a response to the Tea Act. The cargoes of British ships were thrown overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These members of the militia were trained to be ready at a moment's notice.
Who are the Minutemen?
This drew an imaginary line that stated colonists couldc not settled west of the Appalachian mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
A meeting of colonists to discuss the unfairness of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?