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BRITISH LAWS
100
Britain's law-making assembly.
What is Parliament?
100
A colonist who remained loyal to the British
What is a Loyalist?
100
Battle of "the shot heard around the world."
What is Battle of Lexington
100
First spoke out against the Stamp Act
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
Law passed that taxed printed materials.
What is Stamp Act?
200
Group of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule
What is The Sons of Liberty?
200
A volunteer army
What is militia
200
British soldiers fired on unarmed members of a protesting mob
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Led the colonists at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Who is William Prescott?
200
Laws calling for a tax on imported goods.
What are Townshend Acts?
300
A tax imposed on imported goods?
What is tariff?
300
Militia groups who could be ready to fight on a minute's notice
Who are Minutemen
300
Forced the British to retreat to Boston
What is Battle of Concord?
300
Warned the militia of the British attack at Lexington
Who is Paul Revere?
300
Law passed stating that only the East India Company could sell tea to the colonists
What is Tea Act
400
Organized refusal to buy goods.
What is a boycott?
400
Meeting of representatives to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
What is First Continental Congress
400
Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
Organized the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams
400
Laws passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party?
What are Intolerable Acts?
500
A colonist who opposed British rule.
What is a Patriot?
500
Groups of colonists formed to spread the news quickly about protests against British
What are Committees of Correspondence?
500
War fought for American independence
What is The American Revolution?
500
Offered to lead men into battle for the relief of Boston
Who is George Washington?
500
Three parts of Intolerable Acts.
What is feed and house soldiers, close Boston port, and a British general for governor.