Laws and Acts
British Act to first place a tax on tea.
What is The Townsend Act?
Elected the first Commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
1st Continental Congress wrote this final attempt to avoid war with Great Britain.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
When people purposefully stop using or supporting a person, place, business/organization or product.
What is Boycott?
Stated that people could not settle west of the Applachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of King George III?
Act that led the colonist to protest, "No Taxation Without Representation"!
What is the Stamp Act?
Leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, they acted like a national government to the 13 uniting colonies.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
Products and raw materials that are brought into a country for sale to the population of a country.
What are imports?
Situation started by colonists throwing snowballs and rocks, but ended in multiple deaths.
What was the Boston Massacre?
Glass, Lead, Paper, Paint and Tea were taxed under this act.
What is The Townsend Act?
John Hancock and Samuel Adams were both members of this secret organization.
What was the Sons of Liberty?
The 2nd Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin the first Postmaster General to establish _____________________ that was the original of the present United States Postal Service.
What is a communication system?
Products or raw materials that are taken out of one country and shipped to another country for sale to their population.
What are exports?
United States President who defended the soliders involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
These Acts were in direct response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
Desired Liberty or Death!
Who is Patrick Henry?
Acts that included The Boston Port Act which closed the harbor until the colonists paid for all the tea they destroyed.
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
The deliberate, brutal murder of several people at once.
What is a massacre?
Writing that caused the Revolutionary War focus to change to Independence from Great Britain.
IN What was the phamplet Common Sense written by Thomas Paine?
Act which required the colonists to provide housing for the British military, and it had to be up to the standards of the British officials.
What is The Quartering Act?
Alerted Boston that the "British were coming!".
Who is Paul Revere?
Jobs given to each of the 3 committees of the 2nd continental congress after the focus of the war changed to independence. (Name all 3)
What was
- a declaration of independence
- a plan to form foreign alliances
- a plan to prepare a new form of government, a confederation of the colonies.?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Boston militia's code was _____ if by land and ____ if by sea.
What is ONE if by land and TWO if by sea?