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Act of 1764 (taxed sugar, molasses, and other goods) that was Britain’s first attempt to raise money after the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
The freed slave who became one of the victims of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This was an act of rebellion against the Tea Act of 1773
What is the The Boston Tea Party
The primary reason colonists were angry with British Parliament
What is Georgia?
The colony where the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is Massachusetts?
The name of the group of British officials that made laws in the colonies
What is Parliament?
He fought in the French & Indian War and later became the commander of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
Act of violence committed against the colonists further causing hatred towards the British. 5 American colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The way that Britain hoped to control the colonies when it came to paying off their debts.
What is passing Acts that taxed the colonists?
The low economic position Britain found themselves in after the French and Indian War.
What is debt?
Ended the French and Indian War (provide the year the treaty was signed).
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
A tax on paper goods in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
True or False?
Almost all colonists believed that the colonies should be independent and free from England.
False. John Adams once estimated that 1/3 of the colonists were for the Revolution, 1/3 were neutral, and 1/3 opposed.
Slogan used in propaganda to remind colonists the danger that they faced if they did not unite against Britain.
What is Join, Or Die?
The meeting location of the First Continental Congress.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
The group that helped the Patriots take steps towards revolution through demonstrations of protest like the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Attempt by the Second Continental Congress to make one last plea to Britain to hear them out and avoid going to war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The leader of Britain at the time.
Who is King George III?
A form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services.
What is a boycott?
A fight for land between the British and French that resulted in a British victory over the French.
What is the French and Indian War?
The act of being forced to keep British soldiers in one's own home.
What is quartering?
Act of violence committed against the colonist further causing hatred towards the British. 5 American colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Meeting of delegates to respond to the Coercive Acts and unite as colonists to address the British Parliamant.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Passed as an attempt to control the colonies and punish them for their rebellion.
What are the coercive acts?
Colonists that wanted independence from England.
What is a patriot?
The slogan used after the Stamp Act was passed to stir up anti tax feelings
What is 'no taxation without representation'?
He would eventually serve as the vice president of the United States as well the second president.
Who is John Adams?
Colonists made a deal to trade their newly earned land with this country to acquire the territory of Florida.
What is Spain?
Name of (any) Native tribe that allied with the French in the French and Indian War.
Who are the Algonquin, Shawnee, Ottawa, or Huron.