Acts
Required colonists to provide food, drink and housing to British soldiers stationed in their towns or villages.
What is the Quartering Act?
The person who was thought to be the first to die in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A fight between British soldiers and colonists in Boston. 5 colonists lost their lives.
What was The Boston Massacre?
The group of colonists who united together to protest the Stamp Act and the unfair taxes by the British.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The name of the group of British lawmakers?
What is Parliament?
This act taxed sugar, molasses and rum.
What is the Sugar Act?
The leader of England during the Revolutionary War.
Who was King George III?
The war that caused the British to have a lot of debt to pay back.
What is the French and Indian War?
To refuse to buy to use a product under protest.
What is boycott?
Two important leaders of the Sons of Liberty.
Who were Paul Revere and Samuel Adams?
This act taxed anything on paper (newspapers, magazines, playing cards, important documents).
What is the Stamp Act?
This person was a lawyer and defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
The name of a person who strongly opposed British rule?
What is a Patriot?
The name of a colonist that was still loyal to Britain.
What is a Loyalist?
The French and Indian War was fought because of this?
What is a struggle between the French and British for control over land in the Ohio River Valley?
This act taxed tea, glass, lead, and paper the colonies imported.
What is The Townshend Act?
The leader of the Continental (American) Army and the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
Dozens of Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and boarded ships in Boston Harbor illegally to dump tea into the harbor.
What was The Boston Tea Party?
Women who wove their own cloth to support a boycott against Britain.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
To cancel or take back something. This is what the colonists wanted King George and the Parliament to do with the Intolerable Acts.
What is repeal?
Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. It was a punishment to Massachusetts and a warning to other colonies.
What are The Intolerable Acts?
The person who made a "midnight ride" on horseback to warn the colonists that "the Redcoats are coming!"
Who was Paul Revere?
What does "taxation without representation" mean?
Taxes were imposed on the colonists by the colonists had no say in the taxation.
Delegates (representatives) from each colony met in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
The colony that did not send a delegate to the Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?