Acts
The tax on newspapers, playing cards, dice
What is the Stamp Act
5 colonists were killed at this event
The leader of the Sons of Liberty.
What is Sam Adams?
The document written by the committee of 5.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The reason Parliament gave for the taxes.
What is the war debt from the French and Indian War.
The act that made colonists house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The document British soldiers needed to search anywhere they suspected smuggled goods to be.
What is a writ of assistance?
The lawyer for the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trial.
What is John Adams?
The document that changed many peoples minds toward independence.
What is Common Sense?
The definition of the Committee of Correspondence.
What is an organization that spread political ideas and information around the colonies?
What is the Townshend Acts?
Colonists dressed up as Native Americans at this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The silversmith who created the famous Boston Massacre engraving.
What is Paul Revere?
The governor of Massachusetts whose house was vandalized after the Stamp Act.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
The definition of Effigy.
What is a mocking stuffed figure that represented an unpopular person?
The act that created a tea monopoly for the British East India Tea Company.
What is the Tea Act?
The punishment by Parliament for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
The wife of John Adams, early feminist, and level-headed patriot.
What is Abigail Adams?
The common "punishment" for tax collectors.
What is tax and feathering.
The other name for the Coercive Acts.
Who is the Intolerable Acts.
Stated the King had final authority over the colonies
The colonists had to do something in order to have the Coercive Acts repealed.
What is pay back the amount of tea they ruined.
The moderate who hoped reasoning with the king would fix the taxes.
What is John Dickinson?
The group that sent the Olive Branch Petition.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
The cause of the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?