The region between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains.
The back country
100
The British raised money from the colonists by charging them taxes on sugar.
Sugar Act
100
Taxes on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. These taxes were used to pay military expenses and salaries of colonial governors.
Townsend Acts
100
Some colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped over 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
200
West of the Appalachians
The Ohio River Valley
200
This banned the colonists from printing their own money.
Currency Act
200
Special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods and set up courts.
Writs of Assistance
200
Shut down Boston Harbor until they paid for the tea. Took away their rights. Moved trials back to England. Brought more troops and colonists had to house them.
How the Intolerable Acts affected Boston and Massachusetts
200
Who is Pontiac?
Ottowa Indian leader who lead war against the British
300
The British stopped giving gifts for land, instead they just took it.
Rising tensions or conflict
300
Colonists wanted to have a say in government. They wanted representation and said it wasn't fair without it.
Taxation without representation
300
Arguments started, crowds came and threw things at British soldiers. The soldiers fired shots into the crowd, killing and wounding civilians.
Boston Massacre
300
How much tea was dumped in Boston Harbor?
Daily Double!!! (Double points) Over 90,000 pounds
300
Parliament can impose taxed when it wants to.
Declaratory Act
400
The attack on British forts
Pontiac's Rebellion
400
Tax every type of paper that is written on
Stamp Act
400
Tax on tea
Tea Act
400
Boston
City of the Tea Party
400
All of the problems between the British and the colonists lead to . . .
Revolutionary War
500
This banned any further British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, creating a dividing line between colonial and Indian lands.
The Proclamation of 1763
500
Secret group that used violence to frighten tax collectors.
Sons of Liberty
500
Colonists did not want to only buy their tea from Britain. Britain only wanted them to buy tea from the London Tea Company. Britain's cheap tea would put others out of business.
Reasons why the colonists were against the Tea Act.