An action that shows disapproval or objection to something.
What is protest?
100
A law created or passed by a government.
What is an act?
100
The Coercive ___________ was a group of laws that closed Boston Harbor and made colonists keep British soldiers in their homes.
What is Acts?
100
The Quartering __________ ordered the colonists to provide quarters, or places to live for British troops.
What is Act?
100
The Boston Port ____________ closed the Boston Harbor so that trade ships could not leave or enter the harbor.
What is Act?
200
To cancel or undo a law.
What is repeal?
200
An official public announcement.
What is a proclamation?
200
In March 1766 Parliament canceled or __________ the Stamp Act.
What is repealed?
200
Colonists felt that laws and taxes were unfair. They objected to or ______________ British rule.
What is protested?
200
In October 1765 nine colonies sent _____________ to a special meeting in New York Colony.
What are delegates?
300
People who represent others at a convention or conference.
What are delegates?
300
To bring into a country, especially for sale.
What is import?
300
The lawmakers in the British government, or ____________ passed laws to have colonists help pay for debts.
What is Parliament?
300
Because Britain had huge debts from the French and Indian War, they passed laws or ______________.
What is acts?
300
The Townshend Acts taxed goods that colonists _______________ or brought into the colonies for sale.
What is imported?
400
The murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves.
What is massacre?
400
The lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States.
What is Parliament?
400
The colonists became angry because they had no representatives in the British government. Colonist felt that this was unfair and called...
What is Taxation without Representation?
400
The _______________ of 1763 declared that American Indians could have much of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Proclamation?
400
Colonists refused to buy or ___________ tea when British left the tax on tea.
What is boycott?
500
The colonists were being taxed without having representatives in the British Parliament.
What is Taxation without Representation?
500
To protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service.
What is boycott?
500
When British soldiers fired their guns at colonists in front of the Customs House in Boston on March 5, 1770. The colonists considered the soldiers' actions to be a ....
What is massacre?
500
In September 1774 this meeting was held for colonists to discuss their complaints against Great Britain and set up a boycott of British goods.
What is First Continental Congress?
500
The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies, held to present complaints to King George III, to set up a boycott of British goods, and to arrange a second meeting if needed.