tax acts
Britain taxes the Colonies.
What is Britain's plan to get out of debt?
Sends a message using riots, looting, fires, damage to buildings and others.
What are violent political protests?
he was sent to tell people that the british were coming and made the boston massacre poster.
who was paul revere?
The Intolerable Acts due to the inability to live with them.
What did the Colonists rename the Coercive Acts and why?
No taxation without representation.
What is what the Colonists were REALLY upset about?
Acts made to punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party and being rebellious.
What are the Coercive Acts?
Meant to take away money from people/ businesses. burning down a place of business.
What are violent economic protests.
paul revere and william were sent by a spy to tell people that the british were coming. were joined by another half-way just before the police took paul revere's horse from him.
what was what happened on the midnight ride?
Molasses and sugar.
What was taxed by the Sugar Act?
Lowered tea taxes but made the East India Company a monopoly.
What is the Tea Act and its repercussions?
Colonists reaction to the Sugar Act.
Smuggling the sugar and molasses across borders to avoid the tax.
Boston port act due because it took away many jobs and food from the Colonists.
What is the most harmful of the Coercive Acts economically and why?
Fire, gunshots, lights in specific places, bells and people on horses.
Britain is in severe debt and needs money.
What is Britain's major issue after the 7 year war?
Sugar and Townshend acts except for the tax on sugar
What are the two taxes Britain repealed after the Colonists protested?
A line drawn by Britain that the Colonists couldn't build past.
What is the Proclamation line of 1763?
Examples are smuggling and boycotting goods and services.
What is non-violent economic protests?
why were british troops sent to lexington and concord?
Most harmful part of the Coercive acts to the Colonists government and why.
What is the Admin Justice Act as it took away the Colonists ability to hold soldiers accountable for their actions?
General telling them to fire, colonists being unarmed, british troops standing in lines.
what are falsities made up by the Boston Massacre picture?
Effects of the Coercive Acts (not stated as a question )
Took away ability to hold people responsible, jobs, homes, government, food, land, religion, education and power.
Send a message of disagreement using signs, voices, and gathering together peacefully. No damages, no one/ nothing hurt.
What is non-violent political protests?
What happened in the battles of Lexington and Concord?
British and Colonists stand off. Someone fires, British then fire and kill 8 minute-men. British troops advance into Lexington and Concord after not finding any cannons or guns. Minute-men think the British are burning down the town due to gun smoke and advance onto them, firing. British retreat back to Lexington while being fired at on all sides the whole way.
The different parts of the Coercive acts.
Mass Government law, Boston Port Act, Admin Justice Act, Quartering Act pt.2 and Quebec Act.
Sons of Liberty dressed up, boarded a British ship and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard in a non-violent political and economic protest.
What is what happened at the Boston Tea Party