British Taxes & acts
This 1765 law required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists boycotted British goods to protest taxes; this means refusing to buy them.
What is a boycott?
This silversmith is famous for warning that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This secret group of colonists organized protests against British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This phrase meant colonists should not be taxed without having representatives in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
These 1767 laws placed taxes on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea imported into the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
In 1773, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor during this famous protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This patriot leader helped organize protests and was a leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Women who supported colonial resistance formed this organization.
What are the Daughters of Liberty?
This Enlightenment philosopher influenced colonial ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This 1773 law allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
This 1770 confrontation occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This wealthy merchant and patriot famously had a large signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
This 1774 meeting of colonial leaders discussed how to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Colonists believed people had rights to life, liberty, and property under this concept.
What are natural rights?
These 1774 laws punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This 1765 meeting of colonial leaders protested the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This Massachusetts lawyer defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
These local colonial groups enforced boycotts and spread resistance.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued strongly for independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This 1765 act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists sometimes used this method—refusing to buy or use British goods—to pressure Britain economically.
What are non-importation agreements?
This British king ruled during most of the conflict with the American colonies.
Answer: Who is King George III?
These militias made up of ordinary colonists were ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
Who are the Minutemen?
This document listed colonial grievances against King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?