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British Action
Colonists Response
100
definition of repeal
to cancel
100

The first to die in the Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

100
Ended the French and Indian War
The Treaty of Paris
100

Put a tax on legal documents, newspapers, wills...

stamp act

100

The Sons of Liberty were responsible for this event in December 1773

The Boston Tea Party

200

refusal to buy

boycott

200

Thomas Paine

Wrote Common Sense

200
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
Colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mts
200
Put a tax on molasses
Sugar Act
200

The place where the Sons of Liberty would meet

Liberty tree

300
to sneak in
smuggling
300

Leader of the Sons of Liberty

Sam Adams

300
the pamphlet that promoted independence
Common Sense
300
The only company that could sell tea to the colonies
The East India Company
300

Name of the document sent by the Second Continental Congress to avoid war

The Olive Branch Petition

400

model of a tax collector

effigy

400

President of the Second Continental Congress

John Hancock

400
Wrote the Declaration of Independence and what date what is it adopted (month,date, year)
Thomas Jefferson July 4, 1776
400
the British name for the Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts
400

Name two things the First Continental Congress did

wrote a letter to the King Declared Intolerable Acts illegal told colonists to arm themselves

500

What was the name of the government in England? What was the name of the government in the Colonies?

Parliament Continental Congress

500

Ben Franklin wrote this during the French and Indian War. What did the document say?

The Albany Plan of Union

Wanted the colonies to come together to beat the French

500

Name and explain the four parts of the Declaration of Independence

preamble-intro Natural rights-right of people and government Grievances-complaints Resolution of Independence-declaring independence

500

Name three parts of the Intolerable Acts

Closed Boston Harbor Banned town meetings Quartering of soldiers

500

Who warned the colonists the British were coming? What was hidden? Where did the first battle take place?

Paul Revere Patriot Cannons Lexington and Concord