British Acts
An Act to attempt to encourage purchase of British molasses.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
Perhaps the most famous Son of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
British Prime Minister who authorized the Sugar Act of 1764.
The name given to the colonists who opposed the British Parliament and legislation.
What is a Patriot?
An Act which placed a text on nearly all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765.
The meeting where the colonists agreed to form a continental army under George Washington.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
Author of the Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
Who is John Dickinson?
Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and helped pass controversial tax legislation which resulted in protests.
Who is Charles Townsend?
What is the Continental Association?
This Act passed after the repeal of the Stamp Act asserted British power over the American colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act of 1766.
A meeting called in response to the Coercive Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
A Massachusetts lawyer and colonial leader credited with the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny."
Who is James Otis?
The British Prime Minister who repealed much of the Townsend Act policies.
Who is Lord North?
The women who contributed to the colonial efforts by creating "homespun" cloth.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
The Act which resulted in the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act of May 1773.
A communication network which allowed colonists to inform each other of important political events.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
Colonial leader who attempte to convince the British to recognize the legitimacy of colonial legislatures within the British government.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A British Prime Minister and leader during the French and Indian War who supported many of the colonists requests for more political representation
Who is William Pitt?
The name given to the various colonial boycotts organized in response to British colonial policies.
What is the nonimportation movement?
The Act which might have influenced the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Quartering Act of 1765.
Joseph Galloway's attempt to keep the colonies within the British Empire in 1774.
What is the Plan of Union 1775?
The influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
A British governor in Virginia who attempted to seize territory in the Ohio Territory after the French and Indian War.
Who is Lord Dunsmore?
The African American victim of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?