This required the colonists to pay a tax on most printed and paper materials.
What is the Stamp Act
100
This is where colonists threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor to protest the tax placed on tea.
What is The Boston Tea Party
100
Define a colony
What is an area or land that is controlled by the mother country. A colony traditionally contributes resources to the mother country.
100
The term applied to a country that owns or controls another territory
What is a mother country
100
How many original colonies were there in North America?
What is 13
200
A mob of colonists began to harass, taunt and physically injure British troops. The troops opened fire and five colonists died. This event is called
What is the Boston Massacre
200
Required colonists to provide shelter and food for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act
200
Law that stated British officials could search all colonial ships to prevent smuggling and ensure that the shippers were paying taxes on items shipped
What is the Writs of Assistance
200
This is when people refuse to buy a specific product. This is a protest method used to hurt a company financially.
What is a boycott
200
Name 2 resources that were unique to the Middle region
Wheat and Iron
300
Collected at the sea ports, colonists saw this tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea as unjust because they were not given a say in the taxation process.
What is the Townshend Acts
300
In a hope to prevent further wars with Native Americans, the British government announced that colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763
300
A tax on imported or foreign goods. For example, the British government placed a tax on sugar that was imported to the colonies.
What is duty
300
Define reactionary according to the time continuum
Does not want any change, traditional
300
Name 2 resources or land sources that were unique to the New England region
Fishing, whaling or boat making (lumber)
400
What was the name of the group that often used violence and intimidation against the government as a form of protest. For example, this group organized the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty
400
These acts were placed on the Boston colonists as punishment after they participated in the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts
400
Colonists that were regular people with jobs, but were ready to fight the British soldiers at a moments notice were called
Who are minutemen
400
The act of using uncommon battle tactics, hit and run or hiding behind a tree/rock in battle, was
called
What is guerilla warfare
400
Name 2 resources or land sources that were unique to the Southern region
What tobacco, rice, or indigo
500
At this meeting in Philadelphia, colonists drafted a Declaration of Rights they believed everyone should have as well as a decision to boycott goods. This event is called
What is the First Continental Congress
500
British redcoats were sent to arrest suspected radicals and round up all weapons in a village in the colony of Massachusetts. The colonists fought back using guerilla warfare to defeat the redcoats.
What is Lexington and Concord
500
Define propaganda
What is the act of exaggerating a story or leaving out facts that will make your side look bad in order to help
your particular cause
500
Define radical according to the time continuum
What is wants complete change
500
Name the 5 political philosophies of change according to the time continuum in order from no change to complete change.
Reactionary, Conservative, Moderate, Liberal and Radical