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This Means War
Pay Your Taxes
Taxed to Death
Who?
A Little Bit of Everything
100
Also known as the Seven Year's War
French and Indian War
100
Which act taxed paint, glass, lead, paper and tea?
Townshend Acts
100
When the colonists refused to purchase British goods it was call this.
boycott
100
This famous American leader was trained on the battlefield in the French and Indian War
George Washington
100
The man that hated the American colonists with which an act is named after.
Charles Townshend
200
Canada was taken over by this group in 1763
British government
200
This act was used to raise revenue from the colonies.
Sugar and Molasses Act
200
A law that was passed that put a tax on all important documents.
Stamp Act
200
A secret organization of colonists who were opposed to taxes
Sons of Liberty
200
This was the result of a snowball fight between British soldiers and American youths.
Boston Massacre
300
The colonists were still part of this empire.
British Empire
300
The most hated tax by the colonists.
Stamp Act
300
This tax made American exports go down and that made the colonists unable to pay their taxes to England. It affected mostly merchants.
Sugar and Molasses Act
300
Great Britain acquired Florida from this country.
Spain
300
This happened when 150 men dressed up as Indians and made a statement to the British government about the tea tax.
Boston Tea Party
400
This ended French threat to colonies.
French and Indian War
400
This act made it illegal to trade with any other country but England.
Navigation Acts
400
This law was passed because the British saw it as a way of Colonists’ paying for their part of the war. Colonists were required to house and feed British troops.
Quartering Act 1765
400
The company that was given a monopoly on American trade in tea.
British East India Company
400
He made a speech before the Virginia House of Burgesses to oppose the laws that Britain had put upon the colonists
Patrick Henry
500
This ended the French an Indian War
Peace of Paris 1763
500
This act reflected Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
500
A phrase used by the colonists that expressed their feelings on how the British excluded from the formation and passing of laws. The colonists said this phrase because it was not fair to them that Britain did not talk to them about taxes before passing laws on taxes.
No Taxation Without Representation
500
Who was the monarch of England during the colonial revolts and riots of the 1770s?
King George III
500
The law that was passed that said British Parliament had every right to tax the people of America as it deemed best
Declaratory Act