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An item that was placed on papers, wills, and playing cards, significant of a tax payment
The person who was leader of Britain.
Who is King George III?
This liquid protest was due to a 1773 tax.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1770 Conflict threw the colonies in Chaos at King St. in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What you folks do at the movies, bring in contraband.
What is smuggling?
I can't stands it no more
What is Intolerable?
This person was leader of The Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This 1764 "not so sweet to the colonists" act placed a tax on molasses and other things.
What is the Sugar Act?
This tax on Paper goods got the colonists upset in the 1760s.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Congress that was created by the colonist to discuss what to do with the tax on Paper and Wills.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
To not buy something
This person engraved the famous conflict where 4-6 people were killed.
Who is Paul Revere?
This battle cry from the colonists spurred them toward a Revolution.
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
People who were Loyal to England.
What are Loyalists?
This "Directional" Prime Minister... during revolution. He had passed the Coercive Acts and supported the king greatly to the extent that Britain was ruled only by the king.
WHo is Lord North?
to write to someone, to communicate
What is correspondence?
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This was another name for the Intolerable Acts, which the colonists hated.
The Intolerable Acts closed down this body of water to Colonial trade.
What is Boston Harbor?
President of the Continental Congress; first to sign the declaration. Blue Building named after him
When the "Mother Country" takes all the fortunes from the colonies for it's own good.
What is Mercantilism?
This German helped out the colonists in military training and organization.
Who is Baron Von Stueben?
This allowed soldiers to stay at a colonial residence at any time.
What is the Quartering Act?
Black Dude who got shot first and killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
n 1774, This group met in Philadelphia to respond to colonial grievances over the Intolerable Acts. 12 of the 13 colonies (excluding Georgia) sent 55 men to the convention.