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100
A rag doll figure that represents an unpopular person and was used to scare or intimidate British tax collectors or other officials.
What is an effigy
100
American colonists who remained faithful and loyal to Britain and the King.
What is a Loyalist?
100
The area of land west of the Appalachian Mountains that was fought over in the French and Indian War. The Proclamation of 1763 forbade Americans from settling there.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100
This was an organization of men created to protest against the British taxation policies. They organized the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
This 1764 law taxed sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
To cancel an act or a law.
What is repeal?
200
A formal expression of an opinion (it is put in writing.)
What is a resolution?
200
This was the only one of the 13 original colonies that did NOT send delegates to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
200
This man made an engraving of the Boston Massacre and on the night of April 18th, 1775, rode through the countryside to warn Americans that British troops were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
200
This law placed a tax on all printed materials and required Americans to get an official stamp proving that they had paid the tax.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
American colonists who were determined to fight the British and express their displeasure with Britain's taxation policy.
What is a Patriot?
300
Legal document allowing British government officials to search people's homes.
What is a writ of assistance?
300
This was the city where a "massacre" and a "Tea Party" occurred.
What is Boston?
300
British King who issued the Proclamation of 1763 forbidding Americans from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. He was also the man that most Americans were going to blame for the unfair taxation.
Who is King George III?
300
This law placed a tax on imported goods to America (like lead, glass, paint, and tea).
What is the Townshend Act?
400
Government collecting taxes, a person receiving a pay check, or a someone getting an allowance are examples of this.
What is revenue?
400
A refusal to buy goods or services from a country or a business. This was one way the Americans protested British taxation policies.
What is a boycott?
400
This Pennsylvania city was where the First Continental Congress met to discuss their frustration about the British.
What is Philadelphia?
400
This lawyer defended the British soldiers who were accused in the Boston Massacre. He was a cousin of the man who is credited with starting the Sons of Liberty.
Who is John Adams?
400
Virginia delegate at the Continental Congress who said, "I am not a Virginian, but an American."
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre was an attempt to influence American's perception of the British.
What is propaganda?
500
Citizen soldiers who trained to fight- they were not paid soldiers.
What is militia OR minutemen?
500
This was the site of the "Shot heard 'round the world"; British had planned to take American weapons and supplies and arrest American Patriots. American militia and British troops fight.
What is Lexington and Concord?
500
These were protest groups in America who shared information throughout the 13 Colonies by writing letters, newspaper articles, etc. and then would send them to all of the colonies.
What are the committees of correspondence?
500
After the Boston Tea Party, the British government passed this series of laws intended to punish the people of Boston. BONUS- List the 5 parts of these laws.
What are the COERCIVE ACTS or INTOLERABLE ACTS? 1. closed Boston Harbor 2. outlawed town meetings 3. no more jury trials 4. Quartering troops in Americans homes 5. Opened up the ORV for the French