Parliament Acts (Up!)
The act that placed a fee for every legal or commercial paper, including newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
The king of England during the road to revolution.
Who is George III?
A formal letter to the British government, arguing against a particular act (used for the Stamp Act, as well as others).
What is a petition?
The primary resource the Native American tribes, England, and France were fighting for in the 1700s.
What are beaver furs?
A popular form of talking about British soldiers, mentioning their outfits.
What are redcoats?
This act placed a tax on a universally popular beverage in the colonies.
The Tea Act
Who is Samuel Adams?
A violent method of protest used against customs officials, with the end result being them looking like a chicken.
What is tarring and feathering?
The larger, global war for empire between England and France that the French and Indian War was a part of.
What is the 7 Years War?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. One example is the depiction of the Boston Massacre.
What is propaganda?
This law stated that colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The colonist lawyer who successfully defended the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
To agree to not purchase certain goods or services from a certain group/country, used against the British in protest of various acts.
What is a boycott?
The French city that was taken after British general Wolfe scaled cliffs with 4,000 soldiers at night, which was the turning point of the French and Indian War.
What is Quebec?
To house and give supplies to.
What is quartering?
These acts were the immediate cause of the colonists fighting for the American Revolution.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
A General who was the leader of British forces stationed in New York, who advanced on Concord in Massachusetts.
Who is Thomas Gage?
A group of armed ordinary citizens, these sprang up after the Intolerable Acts.
What is a militia?
By this 1763 agreement, Britain claimed all land east of the Mississippi, and French gave up all claim to land in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A formal word for a meeting.
What is a congress?
A 1764 act that taxed ____, molasses, and rum, and harshly enforced smuggling laws.
What is the Sugar Act?
The colonial leader who famously said "no taxation without representation is tyranny!"
Who is James Otis?
What are the Sons of Liberty?
The first formal proposal for a unification of colonies, made by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War, after he admired the Iroquois Nation.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
These documents gave British customs officials a right to search homes or businesses (like a search warrant).
What are writs of assistance?