Acts
Significant People
Events
"Words from the Wise"
Facts
100
Products like glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea were taxed by this act.
What are the Townshend Acts of 1767?
100
He was a sailor who was killed during the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
The colonists responded to "this" by boycotting British goods, destroying the property of some tax collectors, and tar & feathering some tax collectors.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This document forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
100
This is the number of colonists who were killed in the Boston Massacre.
What is 5?
200
These are the 2 'Acts' that were repealed by the British government.
What are the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?
200
These people were a group of colonists who protested British taxation.
Who are The Sons of Liberty?
200
This is the reason Great Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
What is because the British merchants were not making enough money?
200
This was used by British tax collectors to search a ship's cargo without giving a reason.
What are the Writs of Assistance?
200
This is the main argument that colonists gave in protest of British taxes.
What is that they did not have representation in Parliament?
300
This colonial leader defended the British commander of the troops involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
300
King George III thought the colonists existed for this purpose.
What is for making money for the benefit of England?
300
True or False? A result of the French and Indian War was that the colonies NO LONGER wanted to be part of Britain.
What is False?
300
This phrase was written by the colonists because they did not have a say when Parliament decided to tax them.
What is "No taxation without representation!"?
300
This is the reason why cities like Boston and New York became centers of protest against the British.
What is because they were port cities, where goods were being exported and imported?
400
A colonist who supported King George III and remaining a part of Britain were known as this.
What is a tory?
400
He was the leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Sam Adams?
400
This is the reason the British government decided to close western land to colonists.
What is because the Native Americans threatened to fight people who settled there?
400
Paul Revere, a member of the Sons of Liberty, delivered this message to the colonists.
What is to warn them that the British army was going to attack?
400
This is the way the Boston Massacre "began."
What is by colonists throwing rocks at British soldiers?
500
These groups of colonists who shared news throughout the colonies by delivering information on horseback.
Who are the Committees of Correspondence?
500
This person was the artist of the famous engraving of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
True or False? The British troops fired into the crowd to murder colonists.
What is False?
500
The Non-importation Agreements were used in response to this "act/s."
What are the Townshend Acts?
500
This is the term that refers to the refusal to buy goods that are taxes.
What is boycott?