Daddies (and Mommies)
Who is John Adams?
Required a tax for a stamp on all paper and legal documents.
What is the stamp act?
Immediately after the Boston Tea Party, Parliament closed the ports in Boston harbor until Bostonians paid for damages done during the tea party.
What is the Boston Port Act?
A person who is against the British rule in the colonies.
Who is a patriot?
A war between England and France which took place in the colonies. It was over land in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the seven years war?
Led the Sons of Liberty in dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
Who is Sam Adams?
Lowered the tax on molasses in order to pay of debts from the Seven Years War.
What is the Sugar Act?
Took away the colonial charter of Massachusetts and asserted royal control by stripping them of elected officials and town meetings.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
A group of patriots who led boycotts and protests against Parliaments taxation and laws.
Who are the sons and daughters of liberty?
What are the writs of assistance?
Created a drawing of the Boston Massacre as propaganda for the Patriots. Also was a silversmith.
Who is Paul Revere?
A tax added to lead, paint, tea and glass. Named after a the Lord who proposed it in Parliament.
An act requiring colonists to provide housing the soldiers in their own private homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
The legislative (law-making) branch of government in England.
What is Parliament?
The Governor of Massachusetts whose home was destroyed by an angry mob because he publicly supported the taxes.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Required colonists to house soldiers in their home and provide bedding and food staples.
What is the Quartering Act?
Allowed the newly appointed Military Governor to send rebellious colonists in Massachusetts for trial in other colonies or in Great Britain to be heard by a British judge.
What is the Administration of Justice Act?
The reason why most patriots and colonists were upset by the acts passed by Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
A violent fight that broke out between colonists and soldiers but did not result in any deaths.
What is the Ropewalker Incident?
Wrote many plays and articles mocking the British and supporting the Patriot cause.
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
What is the Tea Act?
Extended the boundaries of Quebec and guaranteed religious freedom to Catholic Canadians which guaranteed support for Britain in Canada against the Patriots.
What is the Quebec Act?
To refuse to buy a product or purchase goods from a business in protest.
What is a boycott?
5 colonists were dead as a result of a mob of Bostonians confronting and taunting soldiers on the streets of Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?