Taxes and Laws
This law passed in 1764 lowered the tax on sugar, wine, and molasses. It also gave British officials the ability to take goods from accused smugglers without going to court.
What is the Sugar Act?
This member of the Sons of Liberty was famous for creating the image of the Boston Massacre and for going on a midnight ride.
Who is Paul Revere?
An open defiance of authority.
What is Rebellion?
The term for the first shot of the American Revolution that was coined by Ralph Waldo Emmerson, a native of Concord.
What is the "Shot heard around the world"?
The reaction to the Tea Act in Boston where the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans and threw chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This law passed in 1773 lowered the tax on tea but required colonists to buy tea from England and allowed the British East India Company to bypass colonial merchants.
What is the Tea Act?
This member of the Sons of Liberty was well-known for his involvement with the committee of correspondence and putting up posters after the Boston Massacre. The British were looking for him on their way to Concord.
Who is Sam Adams
To refuse to buy items in order to protest or force acceptance of one's terms.
What is a boycott?
Who fired the first shot of the American Revolution?
Groups of citizens that organized themselves in order to protect their homes. Started arming themselves after the Coercive Acts.
Who were Militias?
This 1765 law put a tax on printed goods such as newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents. A stamp was put on items to show the tax had been paid. Led to effigies of tax collectors being burned in major cities.
What is the Stamp Act?
King of England during the Revolutionary period.
Who is King George III?
A mocking figure representing an unpopular figure.
What is an effigy?
Did the British succeed in their mission in Concord to find and destroy the weapons stored there?
No, because the colonists had time to hide them.
A common tactic used by the colonists to show their frustration with British Taxes that hurt British businesses.
What are boycotts?
These laws passed in 1767 were an attempt by the British to avoid angering the colonists with internal taxes and instead tried to tax goods like glass, tea, and paper before they entered the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The Boston lawyer who defended the British soldiers following the Boston Massacre. They would go on to serve as both President and Vice President of the US.
Who is John Adams?
A civilian during the Revolutionary era who was ready to fight with only one minute's notice.
Who was a Minutemen?
These two riders initially set out from Boston to warn colonists of the British Advance. One was captured and the other was forced to return to Lexington.
Who are Paul Revere and William Dawes?
The group mainly responsible for organizing protests against the British in Boston. Famous members include Paul Revere and Sam Adams.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
These laws were passed in 1774 as a response to the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston harbor, banned town meetings, required colonists to house British soldiers in their homes, and revoked the charter of the colony of Massachusetts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
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What are the Intolerable Acts?
The rider who started warning colonists about the British advance and made it to Concord.
Who is Samuel Prescott?
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.
What is propaganda?
What happened to the British on the way back to Boston?
They were repeatedly ambushed by colonial militias.
A gathering of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies sent a list of demands to the British and told colonial militias to begin arming themselves.
What is the 1st Continental Congress?