British Acts
These Acts forced colonists to have to sell goods like raw materials. to Great Britain.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Because of this Act, which taxed luxury goods, smuggling increased throughout the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act
This Enlightened thinker started the idea that all people should be guaranteed basic human rights?
Who is John Locke?
It was in this city that a treaty was signed to end the French and Indian war.
What is Paris?
This was an event upon which the colonist disguised themselves as Native Americans?
Boston Tea Party
This act made colonists purchase their favorite beverage exclusively from the East India Trading Company
What is the Tea Act?
This was a tax on all paper goods
What is the Stamp Act?
This enlightened thinker believed that there was a "social contract" between the government and its people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was here that Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for the colonies to unite.
What is Albany?
This was the name given to the event where British troops fired into a crowd of colonists and killed 5 people.
What is The Boston Massacre?
This was the part of the Coercive/Intolerable acts where colonists had to house British soldiers, feed them, etc.
What is the Quartering Act?
This was a tax on imports like glass, paint, lead, and even tea...
What is the Townshend Acts?
The author of "Common Sense," who purposed it was simply common sense for the colonies to separate from Great Britian.
Who is Thomas Paine?
These were the first two battles that started the American Revolution?
The Battles of Lexington & Concord
Britain gained the Ohio River Valley, Florida & Canada after what war?
What is the French and Indian War?
This was an act that Parliament passed to prevent colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
This was the slogan used after the Stamp Act was passed to stir up anti tax feelings
What is 'no taxation without representation'?
He led the Declaration committee and is the primary author of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
After this battle, King George III declared the colonies to be in rebellion.
What is the Battle at Bunker Hill?
This was a secret society that went from town to town stirring up revolution. They used fear tactics like tar and feathering.
Who are the Sons of Liberty
These acts were forced on the colonists to punish them for Boston Tea Party
the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
This was the meeting of 9 colonies in NYC where they resolved that only their elected officials could approve taxes.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
What was the name of the Native-American leader who led attacks against colonists in the ORV after the French & Indian War?
Chief Pontiac
The Green Mountain Boys captured this place, which held large amounts of British artillery.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
This was sent by the 2nd Continental Congress to King George III in an effort to make peace. He did not read it.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?