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100

This act taxed molasses, coffee beans, and sugar cane.

Sugar Act

100

The violent protest group who organized acts of violence against tax collectors; organized the Boston Tea Party.

Sons of Liberty

100

The war between the French, British, and Native Americans over the Ohio River Valley.

The French and Indian War
100
Great Britain used these against the colonists to make up for the significant amount of debt collected from the French and Indian War.

Taxes

100

This event caused 340 crates of British tea to be dumped in the Boston Harbor.

Boston Tea Party

200

This act required colonists to pay a tax on tea, glass, paint, and lead.

Townshend Acts

200

This man acted as the lawyer for the British soldiers  involved in the Boston Massacre. He defended  them because he believed they deserved a fair trial.

John Adams

200
King George III issued this rule as way to keep peace between the Native Americans and the colonists; prohibited colonists from settling on Native American land.

Proclamation of 1763

200

This event left 5 American colonists dead and 2  British soldiers in jail for manslaughter; started as a small argument that escalated to much more when a mystery man yelled "FIRE!"

The Boston Massacre 

200

The name of the British law-making government.

Parliament

300

This act required  colonists to provide food, clothing, and shelter to British soldiers.

Quartering Act

300

The colonists involved in the Boston Tea Party dressed up as these people. The disguises did not  trick the British, though.

Mohawk Indians

300

Name the 7 continents of the world 

**1 country from each**

Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica, North America, South America, Europe

300

The Sons of Liberty organized the biggest boycott of  British goods yet, by refusing to allow this tea company to unload their boats full of tea supply in Boston.

British East India Tea Company

300

Colonists were angry about taxes because they did not  have a say in government. What phrase did  they constantly say?

"No Taxation Without Representation"

400

This act angered the colonists and caused them to plan and carry out the Boston Tea Party.

Tea Act

400

This person was a former slave who was  killed during the  Boston Massacre.

Crispus Attucks

400

What four countries attempted to colonize in the New World?

Spain,  France, Great Britain, Netherlands

400

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea party by issuing the Intolerable Acts. List one act/rule included in the Intolerable Acts.

-Closed Boston Harbor

-King picked the new governor

-All British soldiers accused of crimes would have a trial in England instead

-Quartering Act

400

This group would show their disgust with British taxes by boycotting British goods. They  would often spin their own wool  and host spinning bees; very peaceful

Daughters of Liberty

500

This act was "punishment" to the colonists of Massachusetts for the Boston  Tea Party.

Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts

500

The captain involved in the Boston Massacre who was accused of starting the firing.

Captain Thomas Preston

500

Name 3 influential people from Black History Month and explain their importance.

Vary

500
In response to the Intolerable Acts, the colonists decided to meet at this meeting to decide on a plan to achieve freedom from Great Britain.

First Continental Congress

500

The boycotts of British goods worked a lot of times...what were eventually repealed? (3)

Townshend Acts

Stamp Act

Sugar Act