Acts & Protests
This act ordered that the colonists must pay taxes on all legal documents, diplomas, licenses, newspapers and other documents.
The Stamp Act
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What happened at the Boston Tea Party?
Colonists, dressed as Indians, dumped tea into the Boston harbor in protest
Why did colonists object to taxes like the Stamp Act?
They affected their daily lives and were passed without their input.
The nickname for colonists loyal to Great Britain
Tories
What did Parliament claim in the Declaratory Act?
"It had the right to pass any laws it wanted regarding the colonies"
Who organized the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party?
Samuel Adams
What is the deadly incident where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing three and morally injuring two?
The Boston Massacre
What group held a meeting in Philadelphia to respond to British actions in Boston?
The First Continental Congress
The Massachusetts militia, who were ready to fight at a minute's notice
Minutemen
What did the Boston Port Act do?
It closed the port of Boston as punishment for the Tea Party.
Who was the courier from Boston, who was to cross the bay into Charleston and from there take a horse and ride into Lexington?
Paul Revere
Why were British troops marching to Concord in April 1775?
To seize weapons and arrest patriot leaders
Why did Parliament pass new laws like the Tea Act and Stamp Act?
To raise money from the colonies after the French and Indian War
A war begun within a country to overthrow the existing government.
revolution
What were the acts that placed new taxes on English manufactured items sent to the colonies, including a tax on tea?
The Townshend Acts
Who was the only lawyer in Massachusetts willing to take the case of the british in terms of The Boston Massacre?
John Adams
Where were the first battles of the American Revolution?
Lexington and Concord
What was the phrase the colonists used to describe their belief that they should not be taxed unless they had representatives in Parliament?
No Taxation without Representation
People with revolutionary ideas about how governments should be run and how people should live in society.
radicals
What did the Massachusetts Government Act do?
Ordered that certain government offices, for which the colonists of Massachusetts had before voted, to come under the power of the royal governor.
Who said, “If this be treason, make the most of it”?
Patrick Henry
What did the Intolerable Acts lead to for the colonies?
The First Continental Congress
What is the lawmaking body of colonial Virginia called?
The House of Burgesses
Colonial revolutionaries who used pamphlets and even false stories to make the colonists rise up against the British.
Sons of Liberty