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Vocabulary
Acts/Laws
Colonies
General Social Studies
100

A formal rule or law passed by a governing body

What is an Act

100

This act would close the port of Boston until all debt was paid back to Britain following the Boston Tea Party

What is, Boston Port Act

100
How many original British colonies were there?

What is 13

100

How many states are in the United States of America?

What is 50

250

To bring items INTO a country or colony from another place to be sold

What is Import

250

This act forced the colonies to give British soldiers a place to live 

What is Quartering Act
250

How many colonial regions were there? What were they?

Three, New England-Middle-Southern

250
Who was our only Black President of the United States?

Who is Barack Obama

500

A group of people who meet to talk about rules and make decisions for the public

What is Assembly

500

This act put a tax on all paper goods and supplies

What is the STAMP Act

500

This was the first colony established in 1607 *think Jamestown*

What is Virginia

500
What famous explorer is given credit for finding the New World?

Where was he from?

Who is Christopher Columbus
750
To formally cancel or change a law back

What is Repeal

750
Who is the person who put these taxes on the colonies?

Who is King George III

750

This was the LAST colony established in the British colonies, in 1732 *Think Atlanta*

What is Georgia

750
The city of Boston is in what Colony?

What is Massachusetts

1000

This was the MAIN COMPLAINT of the Colonies

What is "Taxation without Representation"

1000
This act put taxes on things like glass, paint, and tea in 1767

What are the Townshend Acts

1000

Why did Europeans seek to travel to the Americas to begin with?

What are the 3 g's
1000

The Proclamation of 1763 did WHAT?

Stopped people from moving west