Acts & Taxes
This 1765 act taxed paper items like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
A patriot protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Political art meant to influence people’s opinions is called this.
What is propaganda?
In the colonies, this group was elected by colonists to help make local laws.
What is the colonial assembly?
He created the “Join or Die” cartoon to show colonies must unite.
Who is Ben Franklin?
Colonists were angry about taxes because they had no say in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
Britain’s punishment laws that closed Boston Harbor and limited colonists’ rights.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Paul Revere’s Boston Massacre image was meant to make colonists feel this toward Britain.
What is anger (or resentment)?
This leader was appointed by the king to enforce laws in a colony.
What is the royal governor?
This Boston leader helped organize the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act.
Who is Samuel Adams?
After Britain’s national debt grew from the French & Indian War, Britain did this to get money.
What is passed new taxes?
A violent event between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in 5 deaths.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Captain Preston’s report describes soldiers firing because they thought they heard this word.
What is “Fire!”?
Colonists said this right was violated when special judges replaced juries.
What is the right to a trial by jury?
The Sons of Liberty mainly formed to do this against the Stamp Act.
What is lead protests / protest the Stamp Act?
This act used special judges instead of juries, upsetting colonists.
What is the Sugar Act (trial by jury issue)?
A 1763 law that told colonists they couldn’t settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The author who describes soldiers attacking citizens first would most likely be a _____.
What is a Patriot?
Colonists believed this key freedom was violated when Britain forced soldiers into their homes.
What is a property right (Quartering Act issue)?
“Join or Die” represents this idea: the colonies are stronger when they do this.
What is unite / join together?
After repealing the Stamp Act, Parliament raised money by putting taxes on imports.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The first big proposal to unite colonies under one government (before the Revolution).
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
A loyalist would likely call Revere’s Boston Massacre print this (not an honest report).
What is propaganda to cause anger toward British soldiers?
The immediate colonial response to the 1774 punishments was meeting as this group.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Patriots and abolitionists are similar because both supported this idea.
What is freedom / liberty?