This ship was seized on suspicion of smuggling and this act angered the ship's owner and the Sons of Liberty to attack the house of customs in protest. In response, the governor broke up the Massachusetts legislature and British soldiers arrived in Boston in October 1768.
The Liberty
100
This act placed a tax on tea.
The Tea Act.
100
This organization's members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.
Committees of Correspondence
100
This was issued by King George after the French & Indian War. It set aside all land in the Ohio River Valley for Native Americans.
Proclamation of 1763
100
Who fought with the British in the French and Indian War?
American colonists and Iroquois
200
I was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams
200
This act placed a tax on imported lead, glass, paper, paint and tea.
The Townshend Act
200
This war was fought between the British, colonists, French and Native Americans.
The French and Indian War
200
The French and British fought over the _____________in the French and Indian War?
Ohio River Valley.
200
A popular method of protesting British laws was to ________________________, or refuse to buy British goods.
Boycott
300
The ideas of James Otis and Samuel Adams that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission was summed up in this slogan.
No Taxation Without Representation
300
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
The Quartering Act
300
Because merchants in London were suffering because of the colonial boycott, this Act was repealed in 1766.
The Stamp Act
300
This Act stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." Colonists worried the Act stripped away most of their independence.
The Declaratory Act
300
This event was used as propaganda against the British.
The Boston Massacre
400
I died in the Boston Massacre and was the first African American hero of the war?
Crispus Attucks
400
This act required colonists to pay taxes on sugar, coffee, molasses, indigo and whale fins.
Sugar Act
400
During this event, colonists dressed as Native Americans to board British ships and dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
Boston Tea Party
400
What was the main reason why colonists needed to pay taxes after the French and Indian War?
Britain wanted them to help pay off the war debt.
400
This person became Governor of Massachusetts as part of the Intolerable Acts.
Thomas Gage
500
This person was a Virginia lawyer who presented a series of resolutions to the Virginia House of Burgesses stating the Stamp Act violated colonists' rights. He will later be know as the man who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry
500
This act required colonists to buy stamps or seals for most paper goods, playing cards, pamphlets, calendars, documents, etc.
The Stamp Act
500
During this event, colonists protested the collection of taxes and threw snowballs at British guards. Five colonists were killed and many others were wounded in this event.
Boston Massacre
500
This Act gave a large amount of land to a certain Canadian colony.
The Quebec Act
500
The Act that closed the Boston harbor after the Boston Tea Party.