British Acts Against Colonists
This act, passed by Parliament, was a tax on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
British soliders fired on a crowd in Boston and killed 5 colonists on March 5, 1770, leaving five innocent men dead, including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the rebels.
Who are the Patriots?
The place where the First Continental Congress took place.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
British soldiers who fought against the Patriots during the American Revolutionary War
What is a Red Coat?
This act, passed by the British, was a tax on sugar.
What is the Sugar Act?
This event happened as a response to the Tea Act. The cargoes of British ships were thrown overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the British.
Who are the Loyalists?
Americans
Freedom from being governed or ruled by another country
What is independence?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This man defended the redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This was a “catchphrase” said by many Americans in the 1760s and 1770s before the Revolution
No Taxation without Representation
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
What are Lexington and Concord?
Overthrow of a government
What is a revolution?
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This man, along with four others, died in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Name 3 events that led to the Revolutionary War
Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
This man became famous for spreading the word about the British troops' movements towards Lexington and Concord ("The British are Coming")
Who is Paul Revere?
A roughly made rag doll figure or model of a person, made to show anger or intimidate people into doing or not doing something.
What is an effigy?
Taxed goods imported to the colonies, including glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea, to raise revenue and assert British control.
What were the Townshend Acts?
This famous group was created to oppose British policies.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
These laws were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists.
What are the Coercive Acts?
Primary goal of the First Continental Congress
To address colonial grievances and organize a response to the Intolerable Acts
A group of volunteer, citizen soldiers. (NOT a professional army)
What is a militia?