The Acts
True or false? The Stamp Act imposed taxes on all paper.
What is true?
This group wanted to stay with the British crown.
What are Loyalists?
This group hated and banned celebrations.
What are the Puritans?
Name one of the three groups of colonies (by location).
What are the Southern, Middle, or New England colonies?
This person was the first president.
Who is George Washington?
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The Patriots wanted this.
What is independence from Great Britain?
This group founded the Plymouth colony.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This is where most of the growth in the colonies came from.
What is immigration?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Act stated that Parliament could make all laws for the American colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This group organized boycotts of British goods.
What are the Patriots?
This is the other name for Pilgrims.
What is Saints?
This is the name for a colony that was owned directly by the King of England.
What is a royal colony?
This person signed the Declaration of Independence the largest.
Who is John Hancock?
The British passed the Acts because they needed to pay off their debt from this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
People from this group were shot at the Boston Massacre.
What are Patriots?
This group left the Church of England entirely.
Who are the Puritans?
Most colonists lived on these.
What are farms?
This person wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This is another name for the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This color was used to represent Loyalists.
What is red?
This is the name of the covenant that was made and signed in 1620 to establish self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
King George was not the only one responsible for the Acts. This group had power as well.
What is Parliament?
This person was the ruler of the British. (include the number!)
Who is King George III?