Events
In this event, Native Americans helped the French AND the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
In this act, food goods were taxed.
What is the Sugar Act?
This individual attends and takes part in important government meetings.
What is a delegate?
Someone complains about something for good reason.
What is protest?
This man was never president but was a prolific writer and inventor. He was a Patriot!
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Crispus Attucks was the first colonist killed in the quest for independence.
What was the Boston Massacre?
In this act, taxes or tariffs were placed on anything printed.
What is the Stamp Act?
This government body makes laws in a Britain.
What is the Parliament?
An official public announcement.
What is a proclamation?
This person wrote pamphlets to convince colonists to become Patriots. He became a “pain” to the British!
Who as Thomas Paine?
In this event, the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw crates of tea overboard from the ships.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
These acts or laws were the last straw for colonists.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
A person who supports independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
This is a PERSON who turns on his government.
What is a traitor?
The British wanted to capture this Patriot at Lexington and Concord, but we’re unable to.
Who was Samuel Adams?
These people got together to discuss what to do about British taxation.
What was the First Continental Congress?
In this act, colonists had to feed and give living quarters to British soldiers.
What was the Quartering Act?
A person who disagrees with independence and wants to stay with Britain.
What is a Loyalist (or Torry)?
This man was a devoted Patriot and one of the Sons of a Liberty who shouted, “Give me Liberty or give me death!”
Who was Patrick Henry?
This man built a home called Monticello. He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This group did their best to inform/tell every colony what was going on in the colonies .
What was the Committees of Correspondence?
This saying was shouted throughout the colonies after all of this acts.
What is “No taxation without representation!”
To bring in goods from somewhere else.
What does import mean?
The British tried to find munitions and 2 Sons of Liberty,at riots. Paul Revere and William Dawes warned the colonists.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This man had been a general in the U.S.’s first army. He became the first president!
Who was George Washington?