The ACTS!!!
COLONIST PROTESTS!
Vocab 4 fun
Spark of WAR!!!
Organizing against the machine
100

Increased tax duties colonists had to pay on goods such as coffee, sugar, textiles, indigo, and wine.

A) Sugar Act  or  B) Navigation Act

SUGAR ACT

100

Seen as a symbol of unfair British authority, tax collectors were frequently hung in effigy, or as this colonial era drawing depicts, some tax collectors were even ________ and __________. 

A) Tar and Feathered or B) Protest and Tea Party

Tar and Feathered

100

This is the act of taxing, or charging people for public and government services.

A) Taxation  or B) Restitution

Taxation

100

One of the first people killed in the Boston Massacre. Generally believed to be a runaway slave.

A) William Freeman  or  B) Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks

100

Someone who loves his or her own country is a called .........

A) Patriot    or   B)  Zealot

Patriot

200

This was a tax on the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Such as: Playing cards, Printed sermons, Deeds for transacted property.

A) Sugar Act  or B) StamP Act


STAMP ACT

200

This group brought together colonist that opposed the Stamp Act. Many members of the group were less educated shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers. Sometimes their protests turned violent.

A) Sons of Liberty or B) Sons of Revolution

Sons of Liberty

200

To remove something, especially a law.

A) Repeal  or   B) Replace

Repeal

200

This incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. 

A)Boston Tea Party   or  B) Boston Tea Masacre


Boston Tea Party

200

This person supposedly rode his horse through towns like Lexington and Concord to warn the Minutemen that the redcoats are coming.

A)  Paul Revere  or  B) Sir Paul George

Paul Revere

300

This ordered that all goods traded to and from the North American colonies had to be shipped in either colonial or British ships. TRADE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WAS NOT ALLOWED!!

A) Trade Act   or   B) Navigation Act

Navigation Acts

300

It was very difficult to communicate across distances in the 1700s. ___________ of __________ were a communications network set up to keep groups that opposed British policies in touch with one another.

A) Committees of Correspondence

B) Committees of Corrections

Committees of Correspondence

300

To refuse to have a dealing with a person, country or group.

A) Boycott     or  B)  Buying

Boycott

300

This was a group of men trained to be soldiers and who agreed to gather at a minute's notice.

A)  Minutemen  or  B) Militia men

Minutemen

300

After the Boston Tea party, colonists organized into _________ Congress to unite against the British.

A) Continental Congress  or B)  Congress of Benedict

Hint: This is a type of breakfast

Continental Congress

400

This act was a measure issued by British Parliament asserted its authority to make laws binding the colonists “in all cases whatsoever” including the right to tax. 

Declaratory Act

400

These were court orders which allowed customs officials to search locations for “contraband”, items that were being smuggled into the colonies without the proper duties (taxes) being paid.  This angered the colonists.

A) Writs of Assistance

B) Commerce Act

Writs of Assistance

400

The act of killing a large number of people in a cruel way.

A) Massacre    or    B)  Marsupial

Massacre

400

This was when a group of British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists killing several people. Some think that the throwing snowballs caused troops to shoot.

A) Boston Massacre  or   B) Boston killing

Boston Massacre

400

The British Responded to colonists rebelling by passing the _____________ Acts of 1774.  These acts allowed Great Britain to close the post of Boston to all trade, banned town meetings, and housed British troops in peoples homes.

A) Intolerable Acts  or B)  Incredible Acts

Intolerable Acts

500

They were a series of laws that replaced the Stamp Act. While the acts also taxed the colonists without their consent, they were indirect taxes, and therefore imbedded in the price of the goods purchased.

A) Townshend Acts  or  B) Revolution Act

Townshend Acts

500

This was the slang term used by the colonists for the British troops.

Hint:  It has something to do with the color of the British troops jackets.

A) Red coats  or B) Grey Coats


Red coats

500

To join together as a group or a whole.

A) Unify     or    B) Designate

Unify

500

The colonists despised taxes from the British.  There were 2 forms of taxation.  What is the form where you are taxed in within the price of an item? This form of tax was often hidden from the colonists.

A) Indirect Taxation  or  B) Direct Taxation

Indirect Taxation

500

This colonist helped organize resistance to British policies by forming town meetings and committees to discuss complaints about the British.  His name was ________________.

A) Paul Adams    or   B)  Sam Adams

Sam Adams