Vocab
One who dies for a cause and is used as a symbol that cause.
What is a Martyr?
The Governor of Virginia selected this militia officer to lead the colonial troops during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
Led by Samuel Adams, this group routinely protested British mistreatment of the colonies.
This placed a tax on all tea that was imported into the colonies in 1773.
What is the Tea Act?
British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonial protesters, causing the first colonial deaths of the Revolutionary period.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The refusal to buy a certain product or good for a political or moral reason.
What is a boycott?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Native American group aided Great Britain in the French and Indian War.
Who were the Iroquois?
The first direct tax on the colonies levied by the British.
What is the Stamp Act?
Response to the Tea Act of 1773, the Sons of Liberty sneak onto a British Tea Company ship and dump over 300 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Military term meaning to forcibly take over a land or key location.
What is to seize?
Leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Sam Adams?
This organization came together to draft a statement to King George to oppose the Stamp Act.
This treaty ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
War between France and Great Britain in the 1750s and 60s over territory for trade and resources.
What is the French and Indian War?
A person sent, usually politically, to represent others.
What is a delegate?
First death in the Boston Massacre. Would motivate many civil rights movements for years to come.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This organization of 12 of 13 colonies to discuss what the colonies should do to oppose the increased harshness of Great Britain directly before the Revolution.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Petition to King George III to give colonial Americans the same rights given to the English citizens.
This brutal and humiliating display was done by patriots, most commonly the Sons of Liberty, to intimidate British tax collectors.
What is tarring and feathering?
The military act of sealing off a place to prevent access.
British financial advisor responsible for some of the most controversial tax acts in the colonies.
Who is Charles Townshend?
Elected officials in Virginia that made it illegal to buy British taxed goods - they were led by Washington and Jefferson.
Who was the House of Burgesses?
Proposal by Benjamin Franklin for the 13 colonies to join together as one nation during the French and Indian War.
What is the Plan of Union?
Colonial patriots from Rhode Island sneak onto a British Naval vessel and burn it down, killing one British officer.
What is the Gaspee Affair?