Vocabulary
No Taxation without Representation
Uniting the Colonies
A Call to Arms
Declaring Independence
100
legal paper that allows officers to enter a place to search for smuggled goods
What is a writ of assistance?
100
The reason Britain passed the Sugar Act.
What is to lower the tax on molasses and prevent the colonists from smuggling?
100
Open defiance of Authority.
What is rebellion?
100
people who could be ready to fight as soldiers with one minute’s notice
Who are minutemen?
100
a formal request
What is a petition?
200
protest by refusing to buy items
What is a boycott?
200
The reason Britain placed new taxes on the colonies
What is to raise revenue since they were in debt from the French and Indian War?
200
The reason that the colonists did not like the British Soldiers.
What is colonists felt that the soldiers were rude?
200
American colonists who wanted American independence
Who are Patriots?
200
The introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written.
What is a preamble?
300
ideas or information spread to harm or help a cause
What is propaganda?
300
A reason that Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763.
What is to protect the land that they gained control of in North America?
300
This incident was used as propaganda all over the colonies in order to demonstrate the cruelty of the Redcoats.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
A group who met to challenge British control over the colonists.
What is the Continental Congress?
300
The first delegate of the Second Continental Congress to sign the declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
400
an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies
What is a committee of correspondence?
400
The reason why writs of assistance were approved.
What is to search homes for smuggled goods or to prevent smuggling?
400
Parliament passed the Tea Act to save this company.
What is British East India Company?
400
The name of the fort that was surrendered by the British to Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain boys.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
400
This petition asked King George III to protect the rights of the colonists.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and were against the war for independence
Who are Loyalists?
500
Advice that the Daughters of Liberty gave colonists in order to protest the unfair taxes.
What is make clothes at home or boycott British items?
500
The reason that Parliament passed the Coercive Acts.
What is to punish the colonists?
500
Paul Revere and William Dawes were members of this colonial group.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
500
This delegate to the Second Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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