Taxes and Acts
This 1764 law taxed sugar and molasses imported into the colonies to raise money for Britain.
What is the Sugar Act?
This war between Britain and France in North America ended in 1763 and left Britain with a large war debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
During this 1770 event, British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This patriot rode on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn colonists that British troops were approaching.
Who is Paul Revere?
During the early 1770s, this European country was considered the world's strongest military and naval power.
What is Great Britain?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This phrase described the colonists' objection to being taxed by a British Parliament in which they had no elected representatives.
What is “Taxation Without Representation”?
During this December 1773 protest, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose British policies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These colonists supported independence from Britain and the Revolutionary cause.
Who were the Patriots?
This colonial army fought British forces during the Revolutionary War under the leadership of George Washington.
What is the Continental Army?
These 1767 laws taxed imported goods such as glass, paper, paint, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This 1763 British order prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, angering many colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These April 1775 battles marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
These colonists remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution.
Who were the Loyalists?
Name one advantage the Continental Army had despite Britain's greater military strength.
Possible answers include fighting on familiar land, strong motivation to defend their homes, George Washington's leadership, or knowledge of local terrain.
This 1774 law closed Boston Harbor and imposed other punishments on Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party. It was also called the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company an advantage in selling tea, helping trigger a famous colonial protest.
What is the Tea Act?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, announced that the thirteen colonies were free and independent states.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This secretive colonial organization protested British taxation and helped organize resistance, including opposition to the Stamp Act.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This European ally provided the most military supplies, troops, and naval support to help the Americans defeat Britain.
What is France?
This 1765 law required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers in certain circumstances.
What is the Quartering Act?
This outcome of Britain's victory in the French and Indian War ironically increased tensions with the American colonies.
Debt
This is the last ditch effort by the colonists to appeal to the British for peace.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
Compare Patriots and Loyalists: what was the main difference in their views about Britain's rule over the colonies?
Patriots wanted independence or supported the break from Britain, while Loyalists wanted to remain under British rule.
Explain why French assistance was important to the American victory in the Revolutionary War.
France supplied weapons, money, troops, and naval power, helping the Continental Army challenge Britain and contributing to the American victory at Yorktown.