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We don't wanna
Who do you think you are?!
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Random vocab
What ever..
100
This tax actually LOWERED the price of tea AND helped the British East India Complany (a tea company) stay alive by selling directly to the colonies.
Tea Act
100
After the Boston Tea Party, how did Parliament respond?
Intollerable Acts
100
Not purchasing an item, in protest of policy is called?
boycott
100
I am the king of England who refused to give representation to the colonies.
King George
100
Name an item other than sugar, that was taxed under the Sugar Act.
wine, molasses
100
This is where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. "Shot heard 'round the world"
Lexington and Concord
100
This act taxed all paper products
Stamp Act
200
Lead glass tea paper paint......what act taxed these specific items?
Townshend Acts
200
After the French and Indian War, Amercain colonists wanted to settle west of the Appalachain Mountains. What stopped them?
Proclamation of 1763
200
This was a violent protest group designed to make people not buy British goods.
Sons of Liberty
200
I was the leader of the Continental Army
Washington
200
Give 2 items taxed under the Townshend Acts
lead, glass, tea, paper, paint
200
England put all the taxes on the Amercian colonies because the British government was____.
in debt
200
He rode across the countryside announcing that the Redcoats were coming. He gets the main credit in history even though he was captured during his ride.
Paul Revere
300
Wine, sugar and molasses......
Sugar Act
300
Americans snuck items into the nation such as untaxed wine, sugar and molasses. What is it called when you sneek something in without paying the duties (taxes) on it?
smuggle
300
We were upset by the taxes....NOT because of the cost, but because we didn't have a say in the process. What is that called?
Taxation without representation
300
I was the the leader of the Continetal Congress.
Hancock
300
What was the main beverage in the colonies that people drank on a daily basis. No coffee want one yet.
Tea
300
Here is where we named a commander in chief, created the Continental Army.
2nd Continental Congress
300
The British put Gen. Gage in charge of Boston, closed Bosont Harbor and took Massachusettes's charter with the ___________ Acts
Intollerable
400
Added a marking to paper products such as playing cards, legal documents and dice.
Stamp Act
400
Altering information (truth) to try to push an agenda. You see this all the time.
propaganda
400
This man was a cousin to our 2nd President. He also was the leader of a violent protest group in Massachusettes....yes he probably made beer like many colonists.
Samuel Adams
400
I was the lwayer for the British soldiers accused of murder at the boston Massacre. Later I would be President of the United States.
John Adams
400
The Stamp Act put a small tax on all___________ goods, including dice and playing cards.
paper
400
This meeting produced the Olive Branch Petition, and we activated the local militias
1st Continental Congress
400
Crispus Attucks was killed at what violent protest?
Boston Massacre
500
A tax that you see right infront of you. It is not hidden. What type of tax is this?
Direct Tax
500
This closed Boston Harbor. We saw it as something that just was over-the-top as a punishment.
Intollerable Acts
500
This was a women's group that protested taxes. They were not violent like their male counterparts.
Daughters of Liberty
500
I was the leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Sam Adams
500
We were not angry over paying taxes. We were angry because there should be no __________ _______ ___________.
Taxation without representation
500
What do we call someone that fought for independance?
patriot
500
This was a list of complaints and accusations of the British king, and was siged by men like Franklin and Hancock. You could call it the most famous break-up letter in history.
Declaration of Independance