Acts and Taxes
This act taxed sugar imported from other places.
What is: the sugar act?
The last battle of the American Revolution
What is: Yorktown?
A group of men who supported independence from Britain and would do things like protesting.
What are: The Sons of Liberty?
The act of killing defenseless people.
What is: massacre?
Some acts that upset the colonists.
Acceptable answers: Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act.
This act forced colonists to use British money.
What is: the currency act?
This declared war on England, officially declaring they were independent.
What is: The Declaration of Independence?
Women who supported independence and protested things like using British cloth.
What are: The Daughters of Liberty?
Colonist rebelled and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is: The Boston Tea Party?
The importance of the First Continental Congress.
A tax on documents and paper.
What is: the stamp act
This Treaty was made at the end of the war and made England accept the colonies' independence, created the country the United States, and the US gained the Northwest Territory
What is: The Treaty of Paris?
The first US President.
The act of betraying one's country.
What is: Treason?
The reasons British taxes were placed on colonies and how to led to the revolution.
Acceptable answer: taxes were placed because the British were in debt after the war. British placed taxes on the colonists at first to have them pay for things but then as a punishment. The colonists protested these taxes and were pushed too far in what they could or could not pay. Boycotting and protesting weren't enough because the King and Parliament did not want to repeal any of the taxes.
Taxes placed on glass, paint, tea, paper, and lead (HINT: BEFORE the Boston Tea Party).
What is: the townshend act?
What did the First Continental Congress meet to discuss?
The man who said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is: Patrick Henry?
When a military replaces a government.
What is: martial law?
The reason for Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech.
Acceptable answer: to inspire other colonists, or those who could be loyalists, to the revolutionary cause.
These acts punished the colonists by making them pay more taxes on things like tea, paint, paper, and did not allow them to have town meetings.
What is: the intolerable acts?
What did the Second Continental Congress meet to create and issue?
What is: The Declaration of Independence?
The ambassador to France
Who is: Benjamin Franklin?
The First Continental Congress bringing delegates from colonies together is an example of this.
What is: unity?
Acceptable answer: because the continental army was too small on it's own, and the British had hired mercenaries.