British Actions
This British act taxed molasses imports to the colonies
What is the Sugar Act?
March 5, 1770: 5 colonists were killed at this protest on King Street
What is the Boston Massacre?
To refuse to purchase goods or services as an act of protest
What is boycott?
12/26/1776: huge momentum swing for the Continental Army
What is the Battle of Trenton?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This British act required a tax on all printed materials in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists protested British taxes, claiming, "No taxation without..." this:
What is representation?
A cruel or oppressive leader (King George III, for example)
What is a tyrant?
October 1777: convinced France that they wanted in, too
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The end of this conflict caused Parliament to raise taxes on the colonists
What is the French and Indian War?
This act required colonists to pay for the housing and supplies of British troops in North America
What is the Quartering Act?
This famous colonial protest--a break up letter, so to speak--was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Something that cannot be taken away (such as your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)
October 1781: French navy and Washington surround Cornwallis
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired here
What are Lexington and Concord?
This act gave the British East India Company an unfair advantage in the colonies
What is the Tea Act?
This organization of patriots was responsible for the Boston Tea Party--and probably a lot of other riots, too
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
A colonist who did not support declaring independence from Britain
What is a loyalist?
Winter 1778: von Steuben's training proves valuable here
Where is Valley Forge?
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized this body of water as the western border of the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
A series of laws meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts?
Colonists protested British taxes by hanging and burning life-like models of tax collectors, also called these
What are effigies?
German soldiers who fought for the British Army in the Revolutionary War
What are Hessians?
1783: this document ending the war is ratified by Congress
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The Mayflower Compact and House of Burgesses are two examples of this in the 13 colonies
What is self-government?