Hey, King
Life in Colonies
Vocabulary Terms
Taxes and Acts
Its Getting Intolerable
100

Which country is the King in this text from?

England

100

Which was the first colony? 

Virginia

100

This vocabulary word is the name for a person who lives in a colony.

Colonist
100

This war many colonists in North America fought in for the British against the French. It would lead to Britain needed to tax the colonies to pay for the debt it created.

French and Indian War

100

The colonist did this to not pay taxes on stamp act products.

They quit buying British goods

200

What famous 1215 document limited the King's power?

Magna Carta

200

By the mid 1700s how many people of European descent were living in the British colonies?

Nearly 2 million

200

This vocabulary term means something you can not live with and are willing to fight to change it.

Intolerable

200

This act placed a stamp on most paper products in the colonies. It was eventually repealed by Parliament. 

Stamp Act

200

In this event the colonist in Boston did not like the tax on tea so they broke into tea ships and dumped tea into the ocean.

Boston Tea Party
300

Which King ruled over Great Britain from 1760-1820?

King George III

300

What type of raw materials did the king force the colonists to sell to Great Britain? 

Raw materials such as timber, cotton, tobacco, rice, and coffee. 

300

This vocabulary term is a person who is chosen to make laws and help run government for people of a community

Representative

300

This act declared all laws passed in the colonies had no effect and the colonies were dependent on the King.

Declaratory Act

300

Britain passed this act that put taxes on things colonies could not make, like paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea.

Townshend Revenue Act

400

What is the name for the lawmaking body in Great Britain?

Parliament

400

What people were enslaved without pay to harvest raw materials? There was about half a million of them by the mid 1700s.

Enslaved Africans
400

The King of England granted this vocabulary term to different trading companies to start colonies in North America.

Charter

400

This act allowed the British to put soldiers in colonists house without having to pay rent.

Quartering Act

400

Slowly over time Great Britain took away the colonies right to run their own government. What vocabulary word describes this? 

Self-government

500

What did the King of Great Britain see its colonies around the world as?

Money-makers

500

What British concept did many colonist believed they should also have just like people in England? 

Liberty- freedom

500

The British Colonies would eventually declare independence from Great Britain because they wanted this vocabulary word that means freedom.

Liberty.

500

These series of laws were passed to specifically punish the Massachusetts colony for disobeying the King and Parliament taxes.

Intolerable Acts

500

What did the colonies adopt on July 4th 1776?

Declaration of Independence