Terms
The act of purposefully not buying a product
What is boycott?
British King who was ruling during this time and rejected the Olive Branch Petition.
Who is King George III?
Where people dressed up as Native Americans and protested the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This act LOWERED the tax on tea but caused public outcry.
What is the Tea Act?
One of the five dead at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Information that is used to push a narrative.
What is propaganda?
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This battle was caused by the British wanting to take an armory in Concord.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This Act taxed ALL printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
He led the Green Mountain Boys malitia.
Who is Ethan Allen?
These were colonists that were loyal to England.
What are loyalists?
He wrote Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This was a battle that took place outside of Boston on a hill....
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This was an act that was meant to stop smuggling of molasses and sugar.
What is the Sugar Act?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Someone who trades goods illegally.
What is a smuggler?
This man sold military information to the British. He won some early battles for the Patriots...
Who is Benedict Arnold?
The job of the Committee of Correspondance.
What is organized communication between the colonies?
This was a series of Acts that punished Massachusetts, especially by stationing troops in Boston.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
This Act stated that Parliament could tax the colonists.
The name of the German troops that King George hired.
Who are the Hessians?
Who is John Hancock?
The British had a base of operations in this part of Canada.
What is Quebec?
This act made settling west of the Appalachin illegal.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This English philosopher inspired the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?