Great Britain vs. Colonies GRRRRRRRR
Colonists wanted no taxation without....
Representation
This act said that colonists had to pay a tax on printed papers. Newspapers, pamphlets, marriage licenses, and playing cards.
The Stamp Act.
These people wanted to become independent from Great Britain.
Patriots
Cities hung up posters to recruit colonial men to (blank) in the Continental Army and join the fight
This branch of government would execute, or carry out, the laws.
Executive Branch
The colonists would (blank) or destroy British goods as a form of protest.
Boycott
This act ordered the colonists to provide places to live for British Troops.
The Quartering Act
These people were acting against Great Britain.
Traitors.
The Continental army was made up of (Blank). Most of these men were farmers, merchants, and workers. At the start of the war, they enlisted in the army for about one year at a time.
Volunteers.
Was the document that set up the first government of the United States.
Articles of Confederation.
Parliament passed a taxation (blank) requiring colonists to pay for a stamp on printed papers.
Act
There were 56 delegates in 1774 at the....
First Continental Congress
This person was a writer and printer who tried to persuade Great Britain to stop making laws that the colonists thought were unfair.
Benjamin Franklin
The British Army and the Continental army each had its own (blank) or overall plan for trying to win the war.
Strategy
A group of advisors to the president.
Cabinet
The British and French both claimed Ohio valley. The British won the war and got the land. It was considered the 10 year war.
French and Indian War
The British wanted to coerce, or force the colonies to obey Great Britain. Many colonists said that they could not tolerate, or accept, these harsh laws. These were called......
The Intolerable Acts
This person was a writer and poet. She wrote plays and poems supporting independence.
Mercy Otis Warren
Paid and trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Minutemen
This part of the government has 100 lawmakers, with two from each state.
Senate.
The causes were Native Americans were scared of British settlement. 2,000 British died. The effect was Native Americans Attack Settlers.
It happened in 1763.
The Proclamation of 1763.
The other name for the intolerable acts.
The Coercive Acts.
This person was a politician and made speeches, wrote newspaper articles, helped organize the sons of Liberty, and lead the Boston Tea Party to protest unfair laws.
Samuel Adams
Untrained part-time soldiers from each colony.
Militias
A body of 535 elected lawmakers.
Congress