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This Act put a tax on many paper items in the colonies such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards
What is the Stamp Act
100

Some colonists and members of the Sons of Liberty did this to Loyalists and tax collectors. It was very painful and embarrassing. 

What is Tar and Feathering

100
This is a formal agreement among groups or individuals
What is alliance
100
This is a formal meeting or representatives
What is congress
100

The famous chant that colonists used to protest the British taxes. 

No Taxation without Representation!

200
This act put a tax on sweets such as molasses.
What is the Sugar Act
200

These people hated the fighting that was happening in the colonies, so they formed this new settlement. 

The Watauga Settlement

200
This word means representatives
What is delegates
200
This means refuse to buy
What is boycott
200
This is a signed request
What is a petition
300
This act taxed imports such as glass, tea, paint, and paper that were brought into the colonies
What is the Townshend Act
300
This is the reason Parliament passed new taxes for the colonists.
What is to pay off the cost of the French and Indian War
300
This is the lawmaking branch of the British government
What is Parliament
300
This means to work against
What is protest
300
This word means that they are ready to fight at a minute's notice
What is minutemen
400
This act coerced or forced the colonist to follow laws they felt were unfair
What is the Coercive Act
400
This was the reason the colonist were angry about the Stamp Act
What is they had no representation in Parliament
400
This means a public announcement
What is proclamation
400

What was the Proclamation Line?

This was the king's way of keeping the Indians and colonists from fighting. The king drew a line on a map through the Appalachian Mountains. The land west of the belonged to the Indians. The colonists had the land to the east. This made colonists very unhappy. 
400
This is a sudden complete change of government
What is revolution
500
This act gave Britian's East India Company a monopoly on tea
What is the Tea Act
500
This caused the colonist to boycott British goods, and sales of British goods went down.
What is the Townshend Act
500
This a a plan for spending money
What is budget
500
This order forced colonist to give food and housing to the soldiers
What is quarter
500

These men crossed the Proclamation Line to hunt, trade, and scout out the new frontier. 

Long Hunters