No Taxation Without Representation
This act angered colonists because they wanted to make their own decisions about what tea to buy
What is the Tea Act?
This law taxed imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper and would not allow goods to be unloaded from ships until the tax was paid
What are the Townshend Acts?
In September 1774, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia to set up a political body to address the policies of the British. The delegates called this body this.
What was the Continental Congress?
This document has the following four parts: - Preamble - The Rights of Men; Natural Rights - Grievances or Complaints against the King - Resolves independence- the break from Britain and established a new nation
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This person was placed in charge of the Post Office.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
These documents allowed the officers to search almost anywhere-shops, warehouses, and even private homes for smuggled goods.
What were the writs of assistance?
This tension in the streets of Boston left five colonists killed, including Crispus Attucks who was part African and Native American.
What was the Boston Massacre?
These two places are often considered the beginning of the American Revolution, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this was where the "shot heard 'round the world" occurred.
What was the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
America celebrates its Declaration of Independence on this date.
What is July 4, (1776)?
This colony did not send a representative to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
This law lowered the tax on molasses the colonists imported, but it still angered the colonists because it made it harder to smuggle in goods.
What was the Sugar Act?
He is the cousin of John Adams and revived the committee of correspondence which circulated calls for action against Britain; he is also credited with organizing the Boston Tea Party.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill. Though the Americans lost this battle, the British learned that defeating the Americans on the battlefield would be neither quick nor easy. The Americans lost this battle only because they ran out of gunpowder.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The Continental Congress established these well-trained soldiers who would fight the British throughout the colonies; George Washington was this groups leader.
What was the Continental Army?
This group believed the colonies should remain under British rule.
Who were the Loyalists?
This law taxed almost all printed materials.
What was the Stamp Act?
Colonists rebelled by dressing as Native American boarding British ships and tossing British tea into the Boston harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This patriot wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense that called for the complete break from British rule.
Who was Thomas Paine?
Colonists believe fighting with the British would first break out in this area (hint, it is not the name of a colony or city but a larger area).
What is New England?
This person was the President of the Second Continental Congress.
Who was John Hancock?
People in the colonial cities urged merchants to do this by refusing to buy British goods in protest.
What is a boycott?
When the Americans tossed tea into the Boston harbor, Parliament responded with these acts; these acts banned town meetings in Massachusetts; closed the Boston Harbor and forced colonist to house and feed British soldiers. The British called them the Coercive Acts but the American colonists called them this.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This person is known as the writer of the Declaration of Independence, and drew on the ideas from John Locke to explain why the 13 colonies were proclaiming their freedom.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
He was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys
Who was Ethan Allen?
This prohibited the American colonists from moving westward of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763 ?