Acts
The act that required colonist to pay taxes on all paper products.
What is Stamp Act?
The colonist poured hot tar onto British officers and rolled them in feathers.
What is Tar and Feathering?
The main reason why the British increased taxes for the colonies.
What is War Debt?
The war between the England and France that put England in a lot of debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
The leader of the colonial armies, was made famous in the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
A series of Acts that England passed as a response to the Boston Tea Party. Included the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The colonist response to the proclamation of 1763.
What is Ignoring It?
The British response to the colonist threatening them and hitting them with clubs at the Boston Massacre.
What is shooting at the colonist?
The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw 92,000 pounds of tea into the ocean.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
The king of England during the revolutionary war.
Who is King George?
An act passed in 1767 that placed a tax on certain British goods imported to the colonies.
What is the Townshend Act?
The colonists response to the Townshend Act taxing tea not being repealed and the passing of the Tea Acts.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
The repealing of taxes on imported British goods.
What is the repeal of the Townshend Acts?
An incident where five colonist died and there was arguments on if the murders were on purpose or an accident.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The attorney for the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. Was also the second president.
Who is John Adams?
The act that allowed England to save money on military housing.
What is the Quartering Act?
A boycott of all British goods with paper made in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act Boycott?
What is the Intolerable Acts?
The period of time where philosophers like Rousseau questioned the role of government and the monarch.
What is the Enlightenment Period?
The leader of the Sons of Liberty. Also lead the Townshend Boycotts.
Who is Samuel Adams?
A series of Acts that lowered the price on tea, but made it so that the only tea the colonist could buy had to be imported from England with taxes.
What is the Tea Acts?
A boycott of all British goods imported to the colonies lead by Samuel Adams in order to protect the colonist rights. Woman played a big role in making this peaceful protest work.
What is the Boycott of the Townshend Acts?
England's response to the Native Americans wanting more land, involved taking away land from the colonists.
What is the Proclomation of 1763?
A battle where the colonist where able to drive British soldiers looking for weapons back to Boston by hiding in bushes and shooting at them.
What is Lexington and Concord?
He created the Townshend Acts. Was known as "Champagne Charlie."