Acts
Which act placed a tax on foreign sugar and molasses imported into the colonies?
What is Sugar Act?
What term is defined as "Colonists who banded together to ensure rights as Americans and promote independence from England"?
What are Sons of Liberty?
Leader of the Virginia Militia during the French and Indian War.
Who was George Washington?
Samuel Adams and other Sons of Liberty protested the Tea Act by dressing as Native Americans and dumping over 300 crates of tea into the harbor. What was this event known as?
What is Boston Tea Party?
Act that placed a tax on most paper products, including books, newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is Stamp Act?
The people in charge of the British government were known as
Who was the British ruler during the American Revolution?
Who was King George III?
This event, full of lies about supernatural events that did not happen, took place in Massachusetts. 19 people were executed after being accused of witchcraft.
What is Salem Witch Trials?
Act that placed a tax on paint, tea, paper, glass, and lead. It was very unpopular in the colonies because it proved that the colonies still did not have proper representation.
What are Townshend Acts?
This group of women created an organization that signed pledges against drinking tea and published notices in the local newspaper promising they would not buy British-made cloth?
What is Daughters of Liberty?
This person said that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property. He thought people have natural rights.
Who was John Locke?
British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesters, killing 5 American colonists. Lawyer John Adams famously defended the British soldiers in court, resulting in most of them being released.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Stated that Great Britain still had the right to rule and tax the colonies.
What is Declaratory Act?
What organization did Samuel Adams organize in 1772 that worked as a network for passing along news? The Committees of...
After the French and Indian War, Great Britain created a line that prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. What was this called?
What is Proclamation of 1763?
Allowed British troops to stay in people's homes in the colonies without pay.
What is Quartering Act?
This term means that someone or a group of people refuse to buy a good or service to express disapproval or force change.
What is boycott?
What was the name of the event where Native Americans rebelled against colonists in the Ohio Valley? Led by Chief Pontiac.
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?