French & Indian War Aftermath
This was the main reason Britain began taxing the colonies after 1763.
To pay off war debt
This act placed a tax on all paper goods, from newspapers to playing cards.
The Stamp Act
This famous slogan became the rallying cry against British taxes.
No taxation without representation
In this 1770 event, British soldiers fired on a crowd of colonists, killing five.
Boston Massacre
This person was appointed as commander of the continental army
George Washington
This was an economic policy, based on trade, designed to benefit the mother country
Mercantilism
This act required colonists to pay taxes on sugar, coffee, molasses, indigo and whale fins.
Sugar Act
Refusing to buy British goods, a popular and effective form of protest, is known as this.
Boycott
This dramatic 1773 protest involved the destruction of 342 chests of tea.
Boston Tea Party
This city was the hotbed of colonial rebellion
Boston
The Proclamation of 1763 was created to prevent costly conflicts with these groups.
Native Americans
This act required colonists to provide housing and supplies to British soldiers.
The Quartering Act
This secret group, led by figures like Samuel Adams, organized many protests.
Sons of Liberty
This was a war between the British and the French and their Native American allies over the Ohio River Valley
The French and Indian War
This was the final, peaceful appeal sent by the Continental Congress to King George III.
Olive Branch Petition
This law banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This act was a response from the British as punishment for colonial rebellion in Boston, particularly the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
This female group supported the boycotts by spinning their own cloth and shunning British tea.
Daughters of Liberty
Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre is a famous example of this.
Propaganda
This body of colonial delegates met in 1775 and agreed to draft the Declaration of Independence
Second Continental Congress
This European rival was removed from North America as a major power after the war.
France
This series of acts taxed imported goods like glass, lead, and tea.
The Townshend Acts
To cancel or take back a law, as Parliament did with the Stamp Act, is to ______ it.
Repeal
This was the first battle of the American Revolution, known as "the shot heard 'round the world."
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This person was nominated as president of the Second Continental Congress
John Hancock