Taxes!
Tax issued by Britain in 1765, on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. Colonists had to pay for a piece of paper affixed to documents or packages to show they had been paid.
Stamp Act
Sometimes colonists would do this to tax collectors to bully them and convince them not to collect taxes.
Tar and Feather
When people refuse to buy goods from a particular group or country to send a message.
A boycott.
What are the three Unalienable Rights seen in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
This future Revolutionary War leader gained military experience fighting for the British during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington
A law that taxed glass, lead, tea and paper?
The Townshend Act
This person defended the British soldiers for murder after the events known as the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
This was the first battles of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted a new name for what had been called the "United Colonies.” From now on they would be called what?
United States of America
Britain had this as a result of the war that caused all the taxes.
Debt
This gave the East India Company a monopoly on the product it taxed.
The Tea Act
Join or Die, the first political cartoon to encourage colonists to unite against the French and the Natives was created by _____________ ?
Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere made an engraving that he printed and sold throughout the colonies after the Boston Massacre. What was the name of this image?
The Bloody Massacre
In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson listed many complaints the colonists had with King George and his policies. What is the word he used instead of complaint?
Grievance
The animal in the Join or Die propaganda that tried to convince the colonists to unite during the French and Indian War.
A Snake
This caused the Intolerable Acts to be passed as laws.
The Boston Tea Party
The first meeting of the 13 colonies where they first discussed being United Colonies against the Intolerable Acts (taxes) imposed by the British. They also agreed to start boycotting British goods.
1st Continental Congress
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight rides warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere
What day was the Declaration of Independence approved?
July 4, 1776
The territory did the British and French fight over that caused this war.
The Ohio River Valley
The British were taking our money without giving us any say in the matter...
No taxation without representation
This writing tried to convince the colonists to rebel against England.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
This secret organization staged peaceful and violent protests.
The Sons of Liberty
This started with these words, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands..."
The Declaration of Independence
After the French and Indian War, Britain issued this law, forbidding colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation of 1763