Taxation Without Representation
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
Pre-Revolutionary War Potpourri
100

Specific Indian tribe colonists disguised themselves as (poorly) during the Boston Tea Party

Mohawks

100

The Intolerable Acts were in direct response to this event, which destroyed cargo in Boston Harbor.  

The Boston Tea Party

100

During the Revolutionary era, civillians sworn to be ready to fight on a minute's notice

Minutemen

200

This 1765 Act was Britain's first direct tax on American colonists, requiring them to pay a fee on all printed paper, including newspapers, legal documents, licenses, and even playing cards.

Stamp Act

200

Year of The Boston Massacre

1770

200

Year of The Boston Tea Party

1773

200

Sovereign King of England throughout this time period

King George III

300

When this War ended in 1763, the British began taxing the Colonies to pay for the war.

French and Indian War

300

Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause. Paul Revere's etching of The Boston Massacre is often described as this. 

Propaganda

300

This "Intolerable" Act allowed British soldiers to sleep and reside in colonial homes without the owner's consent

The Quartering Act 

300

This group formed in Boston in 1765 to protest British taxation and soon spread throughout the Colonies.

Sons of Liberty

400

African American/Native American killed during The Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

400

A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual. Protesters burned these figures of tax collectors. 

Effigy 

500

The Company that owned the Tea destroyed in the "Boston Tea Party"

East India Company

500

To refuse to buy items to show disapproval or force acceptance of one's terms

Boycott