An organization made up of the able-bodied men in the colony that could be called into military service in an emergency
What is militia
100
Groups of soldiers who could be counted on to answer at once, ready to fight if needed
What is minutemen
100
This act regulated colonial trade
What is the Navigation Acts
100
Placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, and tea imported from Great Britain by the colonial merchants
What is the Townshend Acts
100
The French and Indian War was between
What is France and Great Britain
200
Harsh and unfair government
What is tyranny
200
Paper signed by a judge that gives officials the right to make a search or carry out other acts
What is a warrant
200
Raised duties on sugar, wine, cloth, and coffee imported from areas not belonging to Great Britain
What is the Sugar Act
200
Granted the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea to the American colonies
What is the Tea Act
200
The results of the French and Indian war were
What is France lost most of the land east of the Mississippi to Great Britain and a taxation on the colonies by Great Britain to help them pay for their war debt
300
To do away with or get rid of
What is repeal
300
Complete control of an industry or product by a single company
What is monopoly
300
Ordered colonial governments to furnish a place to live and provide food for the British troops
What is the Quartering Act
300
Four laws passed by the Parliament to punish the people of Massachusetts
What is the Intolerable Acts
300
What factors helped the colonists to declare for independence
What is the British policies that were put into effect to exert more control over its American colonies (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Tea Act, etc.)
400
Freed without punishment
What is acquitted
400
Great Britain's lawmaking body is known as
What is Parliament
400
Required that items such as newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, wills, etc. had to be printed on stamped paper or have an official stamp glued on them
What is the Stamp Act
400
Extended the boundaries of the Canadian province of Quebec to include all territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi
What is The Quebec Act
400
Men who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and dumped about $90,000 worth of tea into the harbor
What is Boston Tea Party
500
The spreading of ideas or facts for the purpose of helping a cause
What is propaganda
500
Refusal to approve a bill passed by the legislature
What is veto
500
Parliament had the right to tax and to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
What is the Declaratory Act
500
Members wrote letters to people in other colonies
What is Committee of Correspondence
500
The first fight between British soldiers and Massachusetts militiamen took place