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Taxed a sweet ingredient people use in baking today, also used by wimps to drink coffee
What is Sugar Act?
Term for a person who fights against British rule, advocates for colonial independence, and the best NFL team of the last 20 years.
What is a Patriot?
Who is King George III?
Member of the 2nd Continental Congress, later becomes 2nd President of the United States,defended British soldiers after Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
Author of Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
This act taxed a favorite drink of the colonists, and limited buying the drink from anyone not British
What is the Tea Act?
Term for person who prefers to keep British relations strong, and desires to keep British citizenship
What is a Loyalist?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Served under George Washington in Revolutionary war, he was famously apart of the Anti-Federalist movement, later became the 5th President of the US and created a doctrine preventing further expansion of European nations into North America
Who is James Monroe?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
This Act required official documentation on all paper including letters, newspapers, pamphlets, church bulletins and even playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
Cruel, unusual, illegal, arbitrary use of power and control
What is tyranny?
silversmith and statesmen, best known for the midnight ride, warned minutemen British were coming, engraving artist of Boston Massacre
Who is Paul Revere?
Leader of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary war, but later sold colonist military plans to the British and became a traitor
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This proclamation banned colonists moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to limit colonial and French, and colonial and native interactions
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What are the Navigation Acts?
What is Mercantilism?
Was a member of the Constitutional Convention, author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the US Treasury, known for his feud with Aaron Burr, born in Caribbean
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Attended the Constitutional convention and his famous for the phrase “Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and "I am no longer Virginian, but American"
Who is Patrick Henry?
First group to publicly advocate for and fight for American Independence
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
These Acts banned certain actions, meetings, and words by colonists, the last series of acts targeting colonists before the Revolution takes off. Severely curtailed rights given to the colonists in the English Bill of Rights
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is Salutary Neglect?
A strong opponent of British taxation in the colonies, helped organize the Boston Tea Party, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and eventual governor of Massachusetts and brewery owner
Who is Sam Adams?
Was an African American killed at the Boston Massacre, he worked on a whaler as his profession, first Patriot death
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This city was the epicenter of the Patriot movement
Where is Boston?