Acts
Monopoly on tea sales
England’s “hands off” policy with the American colonies during the first half of the 1700s
What is Salutary Neglect?
The first battle of the Revolutionary War. The militia and minutemen forced the British forces back to Boston
What is Lexington and Concord?
This person made the "Join or Die" poster.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Supported the British/King
What is a Loyalist?
Placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies
What is The Sugar Act?
War between the French and the British to determine who would control the northern and eastern parts of North America. The British were victorious
What is The French and Indian War?
Something used to help or harm a cause or individual; often posters, news articles, etc.
What is propaganda?
What the cut up snake political cartoon symbolized
What is the NON united colonies?
Supported the Rebels, fighting to gain independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
Required colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies
What is The Quartering Act?
The Proclamation of 1763- An order put in place by the British Government to prevent settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
Was used as propaganda to turn colonists against the British and want their removal.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This was the purpose of the cut up snake propaganda poster
What was to unite the colonies?
Patriot who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Placed a tax on imported goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead and tea.
What is The Townsend Acts?
Fight between dock workers and British soldiers where the British soldiers shot and killed and unarmed Crispus Attucks
What is The Boston Massacre?
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
What is Common Sense?
To tell why the colonies want to be free from Britain
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Most famous patriot who led the Continental Army and later became the first President of the United States
Who was George Washington?
Law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid
What is The Stamp Act?
Sons of Liberty organized an attack on three tea ships dressed as Native Americans who dumped the tea into the ocean. Was resistance for the Tea Act
What is The Boston Tea Party?
Common Sense was written in favor of this.
What is independence from Britain?
Who the complaints in the Declaration of Independence were against
Who is the British King?
Patriot and 2nd president
Who was John Adams?