British Taxes
British Acts
Colonial Boycotts
Vocabulary
Key Events
100

What would the colonists do to show their grievances/complaints about the taxes?

Protest the taxes (boycott or petition)
100

What act followed the end of the French and Indian War and forbade all settlers from settling to the west of the Appalachian mountains in order to avoid conflict with Native Americans?

Proclamation of 1763

100

What was the term for the refusal to buy British goods as a protest?

Boycott

100

What was the name of the colonists in the 13 Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War and who did not want independence?

Loyalists

100

What was the big event that caused Britain to place taxes and laws on the colonists to help pay off the national debt?

French and Indian War

200
What did the Stamp Act place a tax on?

Official paper documents

200

What act closed the Boston Harbor until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid (part of the Intolerable Acts)?

Boston Port Act

200

Which colonial group led protests and boycotts against British goods?

Sons of Liberty

200

What are the three Natural Rights?

Life, liberty, and property (or the pursuit of happiness)

200

The Boston Massacre engraving created by Paul Revere was used as ______ to persuade colonists to fight against Britain?

Propaganda

300

What was the first direct tax imposed on the colonists by Britain (which tax did we learn about first)?

Stamp Act

300

Which tax, enacted in 1765, required colonists to house British soldiers?

Quartering Act

300

What protest in 1773 involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor?

Boston Tea Party

300

In general, why were the colonists so upset with the taxes passed by Britain (what was their biggest issue with the taxes)?

They did not have a say in the British Parliament when the taxes were passed. "No Taxation Without Representation"

300

What event in 1770 resulted in the deaths of five colonists after the British shot them that fueled anti-British sentiments?

Boston Massacre

400

The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a _______ on tea?

Monopoly 

400

Which act restricted colonial trade to any non-England ships and required that certain goods be shipped only to Britain?

Navigation Acts

400

The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed to punish the colonists for which event?

Boston Tea Party

400

What are grievances?

Complaints 

400

Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre was created from the perspective of who?

Colonists 

500

What act placed a tax on imported goods such as wine, tea, paper, glass, lead and paint that the colonists could only get from England?

Townshend Acts

500

What law was passed by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party?

Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

500

What did the Stamp Act Resolves do that were sent from the colonists to England?

Petitioned the government

500

What was the name of the colonists in the 13 Colonies who opposed Great Britain's control and governance during the colonial era, and helped launch the American Revolution?

Patriots
500

What was the event that the colonists fought Britain in to gain their independence?

Revolutionary War