Rev War Vocab
Acts of Parliament
Colonial Protests
Cause and Effect
Famous Phrases
100
To cancel a law
Repeal
100
Tax on tea purchased through the British East India Company, and ban on purchasing tea from anywhere else
Tea Act
100
This event ended in tragedy when British soldiers fired into a crowd of patriot protestors, killing five.
Boston Massacre
100
What colonial protest was held after the passing of the Tea Act?
Boston Tea Party
100
What famous phrase from American history was first popularized during the Stamp Act protests?
"No Taxation Without Representation."
200
Refuse to buy something in order to protest
Boycott
200
Tax on goods such as foreign molasses, wine, refined sugar, etc.
Sugar Act
200
Many patriot protestors dumped tea into the harbor to protest the Tea Act during this event
Boston Tea Party
200
What royal decree, issued soon after the end of the French and Indian War, upset colonists who hoped to move west?
Proclamation Line of 1763
200
What founding father created this famous political cartoon that popularized the phrase "Join or Die"?
Benjamin Franklin
300
A detailed written plan that outlines how a government should operate
Constitution
300
Tax on tea, glass, paper, and paint (among other goods) imported to the colonies
Townshend Act
300
After the intolerable acts were passed, patriots started stockpiling what in preparation for potentially fighting the British?
Guns/Ammunition
300
Which act/acts were passed as a direct consequence of the Boston Tea Party, in order to punish the colonists and make an example of Boston?
Intolerable Acts
300
This famous phrase was stated just before the beginning of what major event leading up to the Revolutionary War?
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
Battle of Lexington and Concord
400
A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual; may sometimes be harmed instead of the individual as a form of protest against them
Effigy
400
Tax on paper goods such as playing cards, business licenses, marriage certificates, birth certificates, newspapers, deeds, etc.
Stamp Act
400
One of the most effective forms of protest against the Townshend Act was a __________.
Boycott
400
What meeting was held as a result of the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
2nd Continental Congress
400
Thomas Paine famously said " Independence is the only bond that can tie and keep us together" in one of his famous pamphlets, titled __________________.
Common Sense
500
The democratic ideas, practices, and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society
Civic Virtues
500
A series of laws that ended self-government in Massachusetts, used the British Navy to close Boston Harbor, and forced colonists to host and pay for the keeping of British soldiers
Intolerable Acts
500
During many of the colonial protests against the British parliament, the colonists hung/burned effigies of those who held what colonial job?
Tax Collectors
500
Why did the British Parliament start passing more taxes as a result of the French and Indian War?
The war caused Great Britain to go into a lot of debt
500
The famous phrase "Give me liberty, or give me death!" was first stated by who, in his effort to convince other delegates from Virginia to send troops north to help Massachusetts?
Patrick Henry