Examples of Resistance
What is a Patriot?
Someone who wants to be independent from Britain.
Name the colonial leader who rode to warn colonists at Lexington and Concord and later became a famous general (The Midnight Ride of...)
Paul Revere
Someone who stayed loyal to Britain during the Revolution.
A loyalist
This law banned colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
The Proclamation of 1763
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 civilians. What event was this?
The Boston Massacre
The refusal to purchase certain British goods is know as...
A boycott
Name the British King at the time of the Revolutionary War.
King George III
This word means an official tax or fee imposed by a government.
Tax
Name the 1767 series of acts that taxed lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea.
Townshend Acts
What protest in 1773 involved colonists boarding ships and dumping tea into the harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
This phrase became a symbol of colonial unity and was shown through a snake cut into pieces.
“Join, or Die”
He was the commander of the Continental Army (and first President of the United States)
George Washington
Define: Grievance
A complaint about unfair treatment. Colonists listed grievances in petitions and documents (e.g., later in the Declaration).
This act put a tax on paper items such as newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document, approved on July 4, 1776, officially announced that the colonies were breaking away from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
Colonists would sometimes cover British officials in this sticky substance and feathers to humiliate them. This was known as...
Tar and feathering
Who was Sybil Ludington?
The 16 year old girl who rode on horseback to warn Massachusetts militia that the British were coming, just like Paul Revere.
When people push back or fight against something they don’t agree with.
Resistance
Colonists protested this saying: “No taxation without ________.”
Representation
This war left Britain with a huge debt, leading them to tax the American colonists.
The French and Indian War or Seven Years War
Writing letters and pamphlets, like “Common Sense,” was a way colonists resisted Britain and united together by doing what?
Spreading revolutionary ideas
Thomas Jefferson
Define: Bias
When someone has a preference, opinion, or leaning toward one side that makes their judgment unfair or unbalanced.
These laws were passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party and closed the Boston Harbor.
The Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts
What rule did the Proclamation of 1763 put into effect, and why?
Colonists could not settle to the west of the Appalachian mountains into Native American territory to avoid conflict between Native people and colonists.