Important People
What was the most effective methods of protest utilized by the colonist?
Boycotts
What British law placed taxes upon paper goods?
Stamp Act
What were the British hoping to collect from Concord? Why?
A known weapon cash and artillery.
Carpenters Hall
What 5 items were taxed by the Townshed Acts?
Paint, Lead, Glass, Paper and Tea
Why did the King of England start to tax colonist?
To solve debt and lost profits from the War.
Who fired the Shot Heard Round The World?
They Can't exactly tell, they dont know
How did the colonist plan to adress the problem of the Coercive/ Intolerable Acts?
By sending delagets to Philadelphia form the First Continental Congress out of Carpenters Hall in September 1774.
What reason did the Americans colonist give for protesting British taxes?
When the King and Parliment eventually repealed the Townshed Act, what item remained taxed?
Tea
Why did King George lll and Parliment issue the Quartering Act?
To save money on housing for British soliders
Which colonist would have said "No taxation without representation"?
The Patriots
What was the Tea Act? How was it different from the other acts (who was it created to help?)
It was a rule that only aloud one company to sell tea cheaply and it was created to help the East India Tea.co