Name The Act
Required tax stamps on newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
War debt encouraged Britain to impose more of these on colonists.
What are taxes?
The Articles of Confederation were the United States’ first one of these.
What is a constitution?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, what is Jack Skellington’s nickname?
The Pumpkin King
A formal change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
Placed import duties on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Colonists used this phrase to protest being taxed without elected representatives in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
Under the Articles, most governing power remained with these governments.
What are the states?
How many Sanderson sisters are there in Hocus Pocus?
Three
This economic system used colonies to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Gave the East India Company advantages while keeping the existing tea tax.
What is the Tea Act?
This Virginia leader was a major during the French and Indian War and later commanded the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
who is George Washington
Under the Articles of Confederation, this many states had to approve an amendment before it could take effect.
What is 13?
In Coraline, what does the Other Mother want to sew over Coraline’s eyes?
Buttons
Colonial anger grew after British soldiers fired into a crowd during this March 1770 confrontation in Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Massacre
Punished Massachusetts after colonists destroyed tea in Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Explain the connection between the French and Indian War and colonial protests against Britain.
Britain’s war debt led to new colonial taxes, which angered colonist
This uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting debt and taxes exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
What type of mask does Jason Voorhees wear in the Friday the 13th movies?
A hockey mask
Large Southern plantations depended heavily on this type of labor.
What is enslaved labor?
Issued after the French and Indian War, this British policy prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Some colonists used this violent form of intimidation against British officials and tax collectors, covering them in a sticky substance and bird feathers.
What is tarring and feathering?
This law passed under the Articles established a process for admitting new states and prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
In A Nightmare on Elm Street, which killer attacks people in their dreams?
Freddy Krueger
These first ten amendments protect individual rights and limit government power.
What is the Bill of Rights?