Acts Taxes and Protests
This act forced colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This document tried to make peace but was rejected by King George.
What is the Olive Branch Petition
Harsh winters and lack of supplies made this 1777–1778 camp a major challenge for the Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
This tax placed duties on imported goods like glass, paint, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This document formally ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Many women supported the war by forming these groups to make cloth and reduce imports.
What are the Daughters of Liberty?
This event was used as propaganda by Paul Revere to anger colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This document listed the reasons the colonies believed they had the right to break away from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Washington used the element of surprise crossing this icy river on December 25, 1776.
What is the Delaware River?
This protest group pressured tax collectors and organized boycotts
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Jefferson argued that if a government violates natural rights, citizens may do this.
What is alter or abolish the government?
Native Americans often sided with the British because they wanted protection of this.
What are their lands/territory?
This British act was intended to help the British East India Company sell surplus tea.
What is the Tea Act
Jefferson used this term to describe rights that cannot be taken away by any government.
What are unalienable rights?
This final major battle trapped the British on a peninsula with French ships blocking escape.
What is Yorktown?