Colonial Concepts
The refusal to buy certain goods as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
To cancel or withdraw a law, as the British did with the Stamp Act.
What is to repeal?
To bring together for a common purpose, which the colonies struggled to do at first.
What is to unify?
The person who successfully defended the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
What act in 1765 levied a tax on virtually all printed material, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards?
The Stamp Act
A refusal to obey authority, often demonstrated by the colonists.
What is defiance?
This 1764 law placed a tax on molasses, which angered colonists who felt it harmed their economy.
What is the Sugar Act?
The killing of several colonists by British soldiers in 1770 was used as propaganda against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The group that planned and executed the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Colonists famously protested this act by staging a protest in Boston Harbor disguised as Mohawk Indians.
The Boston Tea Party
A complaint or protest, especially over an unfair situation.
What is a grievance?
A series of laws passed over many years that restricted colonial trade to England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
A term used for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
What is a "Lobsterback?"
The king of England during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
What punitive series of measures, also known as the Coercive Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party?
What are the Intolerable Acts
To force a tax or rule upon a people or group.
What is to impose?
A person who illegally imports or exports goods to avoid paying taxes.
What is to smuggle?
The patriot who created a famous engraving of the Boston Massacre, fueling colonial resistance.
Who is Paul Revere?
This prominent Boston leader was involved with the Sons of Liberty and was instrumental in colonial defiance.
Who was Samuel Adams?
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing several people in this event.
The Boston Massacre
A seemingly contradictory statement that may be true, such as fighting for freedom while owning slaves.
What is a paradox?
An event in 1773 where colonists, dressed as Native Americans, destroyed British property in protest of the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The African American sailor and rope maker who was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
The British response to the Boston Tea Party that closed Boston Harbor.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
What economic protest involved colonists refusing to buy goods from Britain that were subject to the new taxes?
A boycott