Acts
This was when a tax was placed on all paper items including books, official papers, writing paper, newspapers, playing cards and any other things that were made of, or with paper. Nothing else, just paper products.
What was The Stamp Act?
The British and the French.
Who were the two countries that were at war in the French and Indian War?
A boycott
What is it called when a group of people will not buy items from a certain company or country to fight something that those companies or countries are doing?
This is how many men were actually killed during the Boston Massacre.
What is five?
Colonists bought it from Dutch smugglers.
How did the colonists get tea during their boycott of taxed tea from the British?
This was when the British soldiers could just move in to a colonists home.
What is the Quartering Act?
There were Native Americans that fought on the side of the British and other Native American tribes that fought on the side of the French.
Why was it called The French and Indian War?
Patrick Henry
Who was the man who made a speech that was circulated in a newspaper article about how The Stamp Act would take away the colonists liberty?
Snowballs with rocks in them.
What did the colonists throw at the British soldier which started the fight that led to the Boston Massacre?
They lowered the price of the tea, but kept the tax on it.
How did the British government hope to get the colonists to start buying tea from them again?
Taxes on paper, paint, lead and glass as well as a few other things.
What were the Townshend Acts?
What the French and British were fighting over.
What is the land in parts of North America?
The groups of colonial men that formed to fight against the taxes and unfair treatment by the British Government?
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Crispus Attucks
What was the name of the first African American to die for the cause of American Liberty?
The colonists were not upset about the price of tea. They were upset about this.
What is, "No Taxation Without Representation?
This boycott lasted three years.
What was the boycott against items from the Townshend Acts?
The famous colonist who was put in charge of 450 colonial soldiers during The French and Indian War and later became a General and then President.
Who was George Washington?
The women who began to make their own cloth, rather than buy it from the British.
The Daughters of Liberty.
He made the copper engraving of the massacre that portrayed British soldiers shooting at perfectly innocent and peaceful people, which was then used to print many pictures to send throughout the colonies.
Who is Paul Revere?
This was what happened to 342 chests of tea in Boston.
What was dumped into the sea by Boston Colonists?
The one thing that the British continued to collect taxes on after they repealed the Townshend Acts.
What is tea?
After the signing of The Treaty of Paris in 1763.
When did the French and Indian War end?
The statement that the colonists repeated and chanted about the British government's taxation on them.
"No taxation without representation."
Two were convicted of manslaughter.
What happened to the six British soldiers who were tried for shooting the colonists?
What the British did to punish the colonists for dumping the tea into the harbor.
What was closing the Port of Boston so that no one could buy or sell anything there, and sending a bunch of soldiers that used the Quartering Act to live in the colonists homes?