The Sugar Act did two things: taxed new items and made it illegal to trade with other countries. What did it tax? Who could the colonists trade with?
What is sugar and molasses. What is Britain.
100
What do we call the day when Boston colonists were shot by Redcoats after throwing snowballs and sticks at the soldiers?
What is the Boston Massacre
100
What did the British troops want to do in Lexington?
What is they wanted to arrest John Hancock and Sam Adams
100
Who were the "minutemen"?
Who were colonists who could be ready to fight in a minute's notice.
200
What did the Stamp Act tax?
What is anything printed on paper
200
What do we call the war that was fought between France and Britain over land in the Ohio River Valley?
What is the French and Indian War
200
What did the British troops want to do in Concord?
What is they wanted to steal or destroy the colonists' weapons
200
Which side fired the first shot in the Revolutionary War?
What is no one knows who fired the first shot in the war.
300
Why did the King want to tax the colonists?
What is he wanted money to pat for the French and Indian War
300
What do we call the night that the Sons of Liberty snuck onto a British boat and threw tea leaves into the Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party
300
How did the colonists know the redcoats were coming? Where did they see the signal?
What is they watched the church tower for lanterns. One if by land, two if by sea.
300
Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
Who are colonists who disagreed with the King and wanted freedom from Britain.
400
What did the King tax that led to the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Tea Tax?
400
The Intolerable Acts did a few things. First, they blocked the Boston Harbor. Second, they forced colonists to do something they really did NOT want to do. What was that?
What is they made them house and feed the British soldiers.
400
WHO warned the colonists that the redcoats were coming?
What is Paul Revere, Charles Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott
400
What would happen to a colonist who was caught trading goods with a country other than Britain?
What is they would be sent to Britain to go to court under the King's judge....Where they would be found guilty.
500
What did the colonists do to the tax collectors to show they did not agree with the taxes from the King?
What is they tarred and feathered the tax collectors.
500
When did the King say he would open the Boston Harbor again?
What is after they were paid back for all the tea that was wasted during the Boston Tea Party
500
Which of the three men actually made it all the way to Concord?
Who is Dr. Samuel Prescott.
500
What two things did the First Continental Congress ask the COLONISTS to do?
What is they wanted them to boycott goods from Britain, and start an army.