Vocabulary
To impose a monetary (money) percentage on a service or product.
What is a tax?
Religious freedom, land, and glory.
What are the reasons why Europeans decided to explore the new country?
Colonies famous for the ports, fishing, seafood and cold weather.
What are the New England Colonies?
A set of tax set forth by King George III but thought of by Charles Townshend.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The king that ruled Great Britain during the time of the colonies.
Who is King George III?
A place settled by early American who migrated from Europe.
What is a colony?
the people who previously inherited the new country sometimes referred to as Indians?
Who are the Native Americans?
Known for the vast plantations, farmland, crops, and slavery.
What are the Southern Colonies?
A tax on all paper products from letters to playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
Was responsible for coming up with the idea of taxing the colonies to repay the debt of war.
Who is Charles Townshend?
To refuse to buy a certain product or service.
What is to boycott?
the original European countries to have settled in the new country.
Known for the melting pot of people from all over and their still present marketplace and merchants.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Taxes were place on all products shipped to the colonies.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Developed the Committees of Correspondence and today has a beer named in his honor.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Being taxed by a government that doesn't allow your people to have representatives present in the governing body?
What is taxation without representation?
How the Europeans traveled to the new country.
What is by ships?
New York, New Jersey, Delaware
What are members of the Middle Colonies?
A fight between colonists and British soldiers which started with snowballs and ended in five colonists being shot by the British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
He was responsible for leading the British army to victory during the French Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
To revoke, annul or do away with.
What is to repeal?
The earliest time that Europeans were reported landed in the new country.
What is the 1400s or the 15 century?
What are the Southern Colonies?
Colonists dressed as Indians in protest of tea tax and through crates of tea in the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Responsible for bad relationship with Native Americans and caused constant war with them.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?