Events
The 1773 incident in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped their cargo in protest of British taxes in the colonists
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Another words for income
What is revenue?
The British law stating that only the East India Company was allowed to sell tea to the American colonists
What is the Tea Act?
An American colonist who supported the British during the American Revolution
What is a loyalist?
A legal document giving authorities the right to enter and search home or business
What is the Writ of Assistance?
The 1779 incident in which British soldiers fired on locals who had been taunting him
What is the Boston Massacre?
The physical features of land
What is terrain?
The British laws passed to punish the people of Boston after the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
An American colonist militia member who was ready to join in combat at a moments notice
What are minutemen?
The study of a process that shaped Earth’s rocks and landforms
What is geology?
A law requiring colonists to stay east of a line drawn on a map along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Currency Act?
To cancel or nullify, especially a law
What is repeal?
A set of British laws that placed duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint
What are the Townshend Acts?
An American colonist who supported the right of the American colonies to govern themselves
What is a patriot?
A law requiring colonists to stay east of a line drawn on a map along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The 1774 meeting of representatives from all american colonies to decide on a response to the Intolerable Acts
What is the First Continental Congress?
An objection or reason to complain
What is a Grievance?
The British law that lowered the duty on molasses to cut out smuggling, so that the British could get revenue
What is the Sugar Act?
German soldiers hired by the British to fight in the American Revolution
What were the Hessians?
The American army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by General George Washington
What is the Continental Army?
A groups of leaders of the American colonies who met to address the problem of British tyranny, declared independence in 1776, and led the U.S. through the American Revolution
What is the Second Continental Congress?
Large guns that can fire over a long distance
What are artillery?
The British law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers
What is the Stamp Act?
A group of colonists whose duty it was to spread new about protests against the British ships
What was the Committee of Correspondence?
The document declaring U.S. independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?