Road to Revolution 1
This war and its debt would lead to the Revolutionary War.
What was the French & Indian or 7 Year's War?
This was the primary reason colonists were angry with British Parliament and the King?
taxes, no representation
This was a tax on all paper goods, legal documents, business document, etc.
The Stamp Act
This document declared the colonies independent of England.
The Declaration of Independence.
The name of Britain's law-making assembly/government.
What is Parliament?
This man would be chosen to lead the newly established Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
This Act was forced on the colonists to punish them for destroying 352 crates of tea during the Boston Tea Party. This Act would close Boston Harbor and shut down the Massachusetts colonial government.
The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
These were some methods used by the colonists to protest the Townshend Act.
What is boycotting and smuggling?
The King of England at the time of unrestricted taxation in colonial history.
Who was King George III?
This was the slogan that was passed around the colonies, expressing the colonists anger with Britain and their governing of the colonies.
What is No taxation without representation?
This event would be used as colonial propaganda after the British fired into a crowd of colonists and killed 5 people.
The Boston Massacre
He was the colonist that warned of the British arrival.
Who was Paul Revere?
This pamphlet, written specifically to influence the everyday person into choosing a side, was very effective.
What was Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
This British law prevented colonists from settling into areas west of the Appalachian mountains that were seized during the French and Indian War.
What was The Proclamation of 1763?
An Act that forced colonists to house, feed, and pay the salaries of British soldiers.
What was the Quartering Act?
This Act would lead colonists to vandalize and dump 352 crates of British tea in Boston Harbor?
What was the Tea Act?
These were the 5 men responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Roger Sherman, Phillip Livingston, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
Assembled in Philadelphia, to protest the Intolerable Acts
What was the First Continental Congress?
Tax on paper, lead, glass, paint and tea.
What was The Townshend Acts?
These men were also riding with Paul Revere during his midnight ride.
Who were Dr. Samuel Prescot and John Dawes?