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This act was extremely unpopular in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
The government chose what goods were shipped and how much it cost.
What is Mercantilism?
Sent King George III a letter explaining issues the colonies had.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Colonists had to house British troops, provided food, and water.
What is the Townshend Act?
The battle which started the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Britain needed money so they put a tax on sugar.
What is the Sugar Act?
This law made it illegal for colonists to settle west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation?
Why did british soldiers fire at the colonists?
A group of sailors threw snowballs and sticks at them.
What did the Sons of Liberty tell colonists during this act.
To not sell British goods anymore.
The Sugar Act stopped what trade from New England?
The rum trade
A parliamentary provision that made colonial authorities provide resources to British forces.
What is the Quartering Act
The act Crispus Attucks died in.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What did the Daughters of Liberty encourage during this act?
The Daughters of Liberty encouraged woman to weave their own cloth and to use American made goods.
Which act made colonists not have enough resources to survive?
The Quartering Act.
The person who warned the colonists that the British army was coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
A law that made the parliament have the right to govern and tax the colonies.
What is The Declaratory Act?
This act was passed to punish the Massachusetts colony.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Which good did the Parliament not repeal after the massacre?
Tea was not repealed.
Which act made leaders fear that Britain might be moving towards seizing power from colonial governments?
The Sugar Act.
What did Americans do after King George III ignored the letter.
Americans started the boycott.
Group of colonists dress as natives and dump tea into the water.
What is the Boston Tea party?
Patrick Henry’s last words
Give me liberty or Give me Death.
This act in 1766 let the colonists know that the British crown was the real government and they obey British law.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This act was passed in 1765 to greatly increase empire defense in the French and Indian War.
What is the Quartering Act?
Why did the Parliament pass more laws that limited colonial trade in this act?
Other colonies sent supplies to Boston.