British Acts 1
Parliament levied this tax on all printed materials in 1765.
Stamp Act
This Act explicitly benefitted the British East India Company.
Tea Act
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses famous for the quote "give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
In what city did the First Continental Congress meet?
Philadelphia
Time at which Crispus Attucks was killed
Boston Massacre
This act shut down the Boston Port to all ships.
Intolerable Acts
This first Colonial tax required the payment of a tax on sugar and rum.
Molasses Act
Samuel Adams was most instrumental in compelling Colonial support for boycotts through this organization.
Sons of Liberty
What name was given to the militia units who were prepared to fight at a moment’s notice?
Minutemen
What did British soldiers call Bostonians for their rebellious nature?
Yankees
This Act proposed by the British Treasurer proposed a tax on glass and paint.
Townshend Duties
What were the Intolerable Acts known as in Britain?
Coercive Acts
This silversmith and craftsman took on keeping track of the whereabouts of British soldiers in the Massachusetts interior.
Paul Revere
This act of 1764 helped generate revenue for the British and was also designed to control American smuggling.
Sugar Act
This wealthy Boston merchant who helped fund the American navy and served in the Continental Congress.
John Hancock
This Act proposed that the Colonies help house British troops who were stationed to secure British boundaries.
Quartering Act
This series of acts shows how important it was for the British to maintain a strong navy to conduct triangular trade.
Navigation Acts
Thomas Paine argued for American independence in what pamphlet?
Common Sense
What 2 things does the Declaration of Independence list that colonists claim are cut off from them and imposed on them without consent?
Trade and taxes
The Sons of Liberty dressed as this tribe of Iroquois Indians.
Mohawk
With this Act Parliament officially recognized the practice of Catholicism in the New World.
Quebec Act
This system best explains the activity of 18th century triangular trade in the Atlantic region.
Mercantilism
As a member of the Second Continental Congress he was most instrumental in convincing the French to support the American colonial cause.
Benjamin Franklin
What specific powers do the revolutionaries profess to now have?
Levy war, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce
The Boston Tea Party involved this number of ships in the harbor, this number of chests of tea dumped in the harbor, and this amount of value of tea.
3, 342, 10,000 pounds