Acts
Act that forced you to welcome soldiers into your home.
What is the Quartering Act?
First battle between American Minutemen and the British army.
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The King of Great Britain from 1760-1810.
Who is King George III?
Officially declared the colonies' independence from Britain. Adopted on July 4,
1776, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Approximately 100-150 men boarded the vessels Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver docked at Griffin’s Wharf, and destroyed 340 chests of East India Company tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This placed a tax on all printed materials such as newspapers, magazines, and legal documents. Even playing cards and pamphlets needed an official tax stamp.
What is the Stamp Act?
Led by George Washington defeated and captured General Cornwallis and his army. This defeat was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Was a professional revolutionary activist who was influential in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1776 he wrote a pamphlet titled "Common Sense.”
Who is Thomas Paine?
Officially ended the American Revolution, recognizing U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
One of the main causes of the American Revolution. This historical event was a prime example of both the abuse of power by British soldiers in the American colonies.Tensions had been building between British Regulars and the citizens of Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Included 5 total acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts.
A turning point in the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The Father of the Country, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, and the First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
A pamphlet that encouraged colonists to seek independence from Britain,
presenting arguments for self-rule.
What is Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense?”
Colonists argued against taxation without representation in the British
government.
What is ”No Taxation Without Representation?”
First act which was passed in 1764. This placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
Colonial forces originally captured Bunker (and nearby Breed's) Hill as part of the siege of Boston, with the intention of trapping the British.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The man who alerted the colonial militia of the approaching British forces, which otherwise would have gone unnoticed.
Who is Paul Revere?
Issued by Britain to restrict colonial expansion west of the Appalachian
Mountains following the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
General search warrants that gave Crown-appointed agents the ability to search private homes and establishments without probable cause or permission.
What is the Writes of Assistance?
A series of acts passed in 1767 and 1768 that placed indirect taxes on imports British goods such as glass, lead, pants, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
A major American defeat in 1775.
What is the Battle of Quebec?
Born in the British West Indies, he was one of the most influential founders of the American political system. Became a member of the Continental Congress. Wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
American response to British colonial policy. This represents an important move toward cooperation, mutual action, and the development of a national identity among Americans.
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
Unrelenting in the mid-18th century when it came to establishing unpopular policies in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
What is British Parliament and Crown?