Causes of Tension
This British policy limited colonial movement west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act required printed materials to have official stamps.
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists organized these groups to protest British policies.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
This Boston silversmith and patriot is famous for his midnight ride.
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers killing colonists in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This idea meant colonists were taxed without a voice in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
This act placed taxes on paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Colonists organized these to protest the Stamp act.
What are protests?
Leader of the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
This 1773 event was a protest against the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Britain wanted the colonies to help pay for this expensive war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor in this protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Lawyer and future president who defended british soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
These were the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This allowed the British to search colonial homes.
What is the writ of assistance?
This act gave the British East India Company a tax break on tea.
What is the Tea Act?
A written request to a government
What is a petition?
First person killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This meeting in 1774 included delegates from 12 colonies.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Another term for a british tax.
What is a duty?
These laws were the British response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This meeting brought colonial leaders together in response to British actions after 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Leader of the Ottawa Nation.
Who is Chief Pontiac?
Fired the first shot of the American Revolution?
Who is nobody knows?