Acts & Taxes
This act placed a tax on all paper goods, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain.
Who are Patriots?
This event is where 342 chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The economy of the Southern colonies relied heavily on this kind of labor on plantations.
What is slave labor?
The author (first and last name) of Common Sense is...
Who is Thomas Paine?
This war's debt caused the British to raise taxes on the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
Colonists who remained loyal to the King.
Who are loyalists?
This 1770 event increased tension after British soldiers killed several colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The economy of the New England colonies was based on (3 examples)...
What is January 1776?
The British government issued this in 1763 to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Colonists who did not take sides in the Revolution.
Who are moderates?
OR
Who are fence-sitters?
The effect of the Boston Tea Party on the colonies was...
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The colonial region that had the best soil and warmest climate for farming
What is the Southern colonies?
The main purpose of Common Sense was to...
What is to persuade the colonists to support independence from Britain?
The British passed these harsh laws to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What is 20%?
The Olive Branch Petition was created during the
What is the First Continental Congress?
France began providing military and financial aid to the American revolutionaries after this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get their powers from...
What is the consent of the people/governed?
This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies. It lowered the price of tea but it upset the colonists greatly!
What is the Tea Act?
You work in the port of Boston packaging goods to be shipped and traded. You don't make a lot of money but it is enough for you and your family. Which of the Intolerable Acts would directly affect you?
What is the Boston Port Act?
The colonists responses (3) to the Stamp Act included...
What is protesting, boycotting British goods, forming the Sons of Liberty, tarring and feathering tax collectors?
Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights influenced colonists’ ideas about these 2 things...
What is limiting the power of the King AND expanding individual rights?
If a government abuses its power, the people can...
What is abolish the government?