Founding Fathers
He was a scientist, inventor, and printer.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
All sugar and molasses would be taxed...
What is the Sugar Act?
"Refusal to Buy"
What is boycott?
He was King of England when the American Revolution began.
Who is King George the III?
The Sugar Act placed a __ cent tax on sugar.
What is 3?
He said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
All commercial documents and print would be taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
groups of people in various towns exchanging letters and communicting with each other...
What are the Committees of Corespondence?
He told the colonists to boycott the Townshend Acts.
Who was Samuel Adams?
How many British soldiers were sent to New York City?
What is 10,000?
He said that the British soldiers who fired on American colonists were not guilty.
Who is John Adams?
All colonists must house and provide supplies to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
a group of merchants, lawyers, and craftspeople, who staged a protest against the Stamp Act...
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
He mainly smuggled wine and other goods into the port of Boston.
Who was John Hancock?
What is 15 pounds?
He started the Committees of Correspondence.
Who was Samuel Adams?
No one is to go beyond the Ohio River Valley...
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
this was a method that the colonists shamed and embassed British officials in the colonies...
What is tarred and feathered?
He was the British General in charge of the British soldiers in New York.
Who was Thomas Gage?
How many colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre?
What is 5?
He was the first African American to die for liberty in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
Among other things, Paper, Paint, Lead, Tea, and Glass would now be taxed.
What are the Townshend Acts?
another name for income...
revenue
He was the British official who decided to place a stamp on colonists paper.
Who was George Greenville?
How many British soldiers were sent to Boston?
What is 1,000?