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British Acts
British Taxes
Colonies React
Miscellaneous
100
An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
What is a militia?
100
A law forbidding colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. Many colonist ignored the law.
What is Proclamation of 1763?
100

Reduced the taxes on Tea and allowed the company to sell directly to the colonist.

What is the Tea Act?

100
Sons of Liberty meet at Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100

Official expression of an opinion by a group.

What is a resolution?

200
a colonial volunteer militia who were prepared to fight at a minutes's notice
Who are the minutemen?
200

A law stating colonist must provide housing, candles, bedding, and beverages to soldiers.

What is the Quartering Act?

200

Placed a tax on legal documents, wills, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice.

What is the Stamp Act?

200

riots on King Street, 5 dead colonist, growing resentment of the British.

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War and gave over control the this valley to Britain?

What is the Ohio River Valley?

300

Open defiance to authority

Rebellion

300

Passed in 1766. 

What are the Declaratory Acts?

300
Tax on glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300

Non-jury trials set up for accused smugglers.

What is the Sugar Act?

300
A organizer of the Sons of Liberty?
Who is Samuel Adams?
400

Mocking Doll Used for Protests

Effigy

400

a law that only allowed one town meeting a year.

What are the Coercive Acts?

400
The most successful way the colonist protested British taxes.
What is boycott?
400

This was a way to try to avoid taxes when trading.

What is smuggling?

400

The war that led to increased British involvement (and higher taxes) in the colonies.

What is the French and Indian War or Seven Years War?

500

Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.

What is propaganda?

500

Law giving the Ohio River Valley over to a newly formed Canadian government. 

What is the Quebec Act?

500
The colonist motto after 1765 and the passage of the Stamp Act.
What is "no taxation without representation!"?
500
a plan to create one central government to make laws, raise taxes, and set up colonial defense.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
500
A legal document that allowed British customs officials to inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason.
What are writs of assistance?