Handout
What is a militia?
What is a group of citizen soldiers?
smuggling
What is to trade illegally with other nations
Why did the British issue the proclamation of 1763?
The British issued the proclamation to avoid conf with the Native Americans, to protect their market, and investments.
What is cancelling a certain thing.
Who is Samuel Adam’s?
Who is the Massachusetts radical leader.
What did the Sugar Act lower.
What is tax on molasses that had been imported?
imported
What is brought from foreign markets, by the colonists.
How did the British punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is they parliament passed the Coercive Act, which closed down Boston Harbor and put the government of Massachusetts under military rule. The law also stated that British troops would have to live in the colonists homes.
Minute-man
What is someone ready to go to he military for duty at anytime. Or ready for war at any given moment
Who is Patrick Henry?
Who is one of the two most outspoken defenders of colonial rights
What did the colonists do in result of the Stamp Act?
What is boycotted British goods?
Crispus Attucks
What is a dock worker who was part African, part Native American.
What political ideas led to the formation of the colonists?
What is Natural Rights, self-government, a written constitution and the English constitution
Boycott
What is refusing to buy goods from a place.
Who is George Washington?
Who is Another One the most outspoken defenders of colonial rights that came out of Virginia.
True or False
The Boston Tea Party was the colonists’ reaction to the Tea Act of 1773?
What is True?
John Adams
what is a successful lawyer
Why were American colonists angry with the Tea Act?
What is they were angry because the British East India Company shipped tea to colonies without paying taxes the colonial tea merchants had to pay. Which allowed the company to sell its tea very cheaply and threatened to drive the colonial tea merchants out of business.
Resolution
What is a formal expression to do or not do something.
Who is King George III?
Announced the Parliament that the New England colonies were in a state of rebelion
True or False
Lexington was the site of the first exchange of gunfire between the redcoats and the minutemen.
What is True?
The British Parliament passed the Sugar Act in what year?
What is 1764
What was the Proclamation of 1763? Why did it anger the colonists
What is the Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation that prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. This prevented colonists from moving away which was where Britain’s important markets and investments were.
On what date did the Boston Massacre take place
What is March 5th, 1770.
Who is Paul Revere?
Who is one of the colonist that rode to Lexington and announced that the British were coming