Colonial Acts
Great Britain
13 Colonies
Vocabulary Words
100

Britain wanted to support its struggling British East India Tea Company. So Britain told the colonists that was the only tea they could drink. 

What is The Tea Act

100

British Soldiers were none as _______ in the colonies

What is The Redcoats

100

The first European colony established in America

What is the Jamestown Colony in Virginia

100

To force

What is Impose

200

Colonists had to buy special paper from Britain for all printed documents, including playing cards. This led to riots in Boston and Philadelphia. Britain repealed (got rid of) the act.

What is The Stamp Act

200

What year Europe established colonies in America 

What is the early 1600’s

200

The New England Colonies

What are

New Hampshire

Connecticut

Massachusetts 

Rhode Island

200

A slogan used by the American colonists against their British Rulers

What is No Taxation without Representation 

300

Britain restated its right to tax the colonies after they repealed the stamp act

What is The Declaratory Act

300

Group of women that fought against British taxes and rule

What is Daughters of liberty 

300

The Middle Colonies

What are

New York

Delaware 

New Jersey 

Pennsylvania 

300

the lawmaking group in the government of Great Britain

What is Parliament 

400

Britain taxed tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint. This led some colonists to boycott, or refuse to buy, British goods.

What is The Townshend Act

400

The sons of liberty dumped the entire shipment of Indian tea into the Boston Harbor

What is The Boston Tea Party

400

Southern Colonies


What are

Virginia

Maryland

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

400

to revoke or take away

What is Repeal

500

To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, the British established military rule in Boston.

What is The Coercive Acts

500

European settler that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and found “a new world” in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus 

500

Jamestown, Virginia was named after?

Who is King James I

500

13 British settlements that became the original states of the United States of America

What is Colonies