Vocabulary
What was the name given to Americans who supported independence?
Who were the patriots?
The colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Parliament taxes imported items including: glass, lead, paper, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
What caused Paul Revere to draw a propaganda picture?
What is the Boston Massacre?
The King declares that no colonists may settle past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre killings as a way to influence peoples opinions about the British Soldiers
What is propaganda?
A fight between the redcoats and colonists where 5 colonists die.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Which act gave the British Parliament the right to tax the colonists “in all cases whatsoever”?
What is the Declaratory Act?
To search a colonist’s house for smuggled goods, a British customs officer presented a
What is a Writs of Assistance?
The King declared that the Boston Harbor will be closed until the tea was paid for.
What is Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts?
Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?
What is loyalist?
The meeting in Philadelphia in which the representatives decided to form militias.
Who is the 1st Continental Congress?
Import tax on molasses and coffee
What is the Sugar Act?
What were the colonists ultimately protesting against?
What is the phase "taxation without representation?"
After the British won the French and Indian War, which natural feature marked the eastern boundary of Spanish Territory?
What is the Mississippi River?
To cancel a law or act
What is repeal?
When the Sons of liberty burned effigies, this was an example of?
What is protesting?
British Parliament places an internal taxon all printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
Who was the woman who spoke up and suggested increased rights for women?
Who is Abigail Adams?
This law allowed the British East India Tea Company to sell cheaper tea.
What is the Tea Act?
The colonists considered King George III to be a ____________________ because he did not allow citizens to have a say in the government
What is tyrant?
Why did the Daughters of Liberty sewed their ownclothes?
What is protesting the Townshed Act?
Because the King was in debt, how did he provide for the soldiers that were sent to the colonies to enforce British laws?
What is the Quartering Act?
How could the British government have prevented the Revolutionary War?
What is by allowing colonists to elect representatives in Parliament?
Why did the King create the Writs of Assistance?
What is to stop smuggling?