Stamp Act
The year to the Stamp Act.
What is 1765?
This is the year of the Townshend Acts.
What is 1767?
This is how many colonist died in the Boston MASSACRE.
What is 5 colonists were killed?
This is the year of the Boston Tea Party.
What is 1773?
This is the year that the Intolerable Acts started.
What is 1774?
Three things the British taxed with the Stamp Act.
What are paper, wills and playing cards?
These women sewed items so that the colonists wouldn't have to buy British goods.
What is the group "Daughters of Liberty"?
These are the items used by the colonist during the riot.
What are clubs, knives, swords and bare hands?
What is Mohawk Indians?
This the the first Intolerable Act.
What is The Boston Port Act?
This war cost the British lots of money and was a major reason the British wanted to tax the colonist.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was one of the leaders of the "Sons of Liberty". This group helped defeat the Stamp.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This person was the first martyr of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This is how much the tea would be worth today if that much tea destroyed.
What is 1 million dollars?
This allowed British Soldiers to stay in Colonists homes without their approval.
What is the Quartering Act?
This act was before the Stamp Act.
What is the Sugar Act?
To pay for damages because rioting, to help pay for all the useless stamps and to make money for the British Army.
What are the reasons the British came up with this tax?
This person painted a picture that depicted the colonists getting attacked by the British. He did this to get other colonists to go against England.
Who is Paul Revere?
These were the reasons that the colonist dumped the tea.
What is frustrated with the British for all of the taxes, didn't want to pay high prices for tea and wanted representation in Parliament!
The number of men who made up the 1st Constionaltion Congress. This group worked to make sure that all the colonies knew how upset they were with the King.
What is 56 delegates?
This saying means not allowing us a say in how are taxes are used isn't fair.
What is 'Taxation without Representation is Tyranny?'
This person went to London as a spokesperson for the colonists to get these acts repealed. (Repealed means to do away with.)
Who is Ben Franklin?
This is the time of night and the month that the Massacre occurred.
What is 9 pm in March?
The Boston Tea Party made England impose these acts.
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
This person called this act the 'Murder' Act because it was so unfair to colonist. The colonist had to be put on trail back in England.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?