Vocabulary
The word that means cancel
What is repeal?
The leader of the Sons of Liberty
Who was Sam Adams?
Taxes on imported goods such as glass, tea, clothing, paint, and lead
What were the Townshend Acts?
The event on March 5th, 1770, in which British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists and killed 5 people
What was the Boston Massacre?
It said that colonists could not move past the Appalachian Mountains
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
A lawmaking body
What is a legislature?
The prime minister of Great Britain
Who was George Grenville?
The act that lowered the tax and sugar and molasses in order to stop smuggling
What was the Sugar Act?
The two towns where the British and colonists first battled in what became known as the "Shot heard 'round the world"
What were Lexington and Concord?
Documents that allowed officials to search for smuggled goods
What were writs of assistance?
Groups that spread political ideas through the colonies
What are committees of correspondence?
The writer of Common Sense
Who was Thomas Paine?
The tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies; including wills, playing cards, and newspapers
What was the Stamp Act?
The place on Lake Champlain in New York state that was captured by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
What was Fort Ticonderoga?
It was the last effort by the colonists to make peace with Great Britain
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
Information designed to influence opinion
What is propaganda?
The Patriot known for killing the last wolf in Connecticut
Who was Israel Putnam?
The acts that closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, and forced quartering of soldiers in homes
What were the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
The armed conflict in which the Patriot commander told his men, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
What was Bunker Hill?
They were two arguments Thomas Paine made in Common Sense
What were the ideas that tiny Britain should not be ruling a bigger land and that the British are not our brothers because they are shooting at us?
The British policy of not interfering in the colonies; especially in matters of trade
What was Salutary Neglect?
The person who moved the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston
Who was Henry Knox?
The act that gave an unfair advantage to the East India Company in that it did not have to pay the taxes that other tea companies had to pay
What was the Tea Act?
The decisions made by the First Continental Congress
What was to repeal all acts by Parliament, boycott British goods, and create militias?
They were the four decisions made by the Second Continental Congress
What were print money, set up a post office, establish committees to deal with Native Americans and other countries, and build a Continental Army?