Acts
The Stamp Act
What is a law the British passed to tax documents and papers.
What happened at the Boston Tea Party
What is a group of Americans disguised themselves as Native American Indians and threw 342 boxes of tea into the sea.
Treaty of Paris
What is an agreement that ended the French and Indian War.
Virtual representation
What is the idea that the members of the Parliament represented all of the British empire.
Why did the British tax the Americans so heavily?
What is to pay off their debt from the Seven Years' War.
The Sugar Act
What is a law the British passed to place a tax on sugar and molasses imported into American colonies.
The French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)
What is a battle between Britain and its Native American allies and France that took place between 1754-1763.
Albany Congress
What is the proposal for the American colonies to be united under one, centralized government.
Admiralty courts
What are British colonial courts that handled business in the water.
How many people were killed in the Boston Massacre?
What is five.
The Townshend Acts
What is a series of laws that places taxes on certain goods, like glass, tea, paper, and paint.
The Boston Massacre
What is when British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists, killing a number of them. They were provoked because the colonists were throwing objects at them.
Stamp Act Congress
What is a meeting hosted by American colonists in NYC to discuss their response to the Stamp Act and other laws they disagreed with.
Writs of assisstance
What are general search warrants that allow officials to search any place that they suspect is smuggling goods without a specific warrant.
Who usually wore homespun cloth and what was so important about homespun cloth?
What is the people of lower class usually wore it and it was a method of resistance against the British.
The Declaratory Act
What is the Parliament's declaration of being able to tax the American colonists however they wanted whenever they wanted.
Pontiac's Rebellion
A conflict that sparked between the British and multiple factions of Native Americans after the Seven Years' War.
Proclamation of 1763
What is a declaration made to shut down the settlement of Anglo-American colonists into French territory.
Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty
What are the people who took a stand against the unfair British policies through protests and acts of resistance.
The colony that did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
What are acts places as punishment for the Americans because of what happened at the Boston Tea Party.
The First Continental Congress
A response made by the Americans against the Intolerable Acts that involves boycotting British goods and declaring their grievances.
Committees of Correspondence
What is a network made by American colonies to resist British policies, sharing info and mobilizing public opinion.
Homespun
What is a word use to describe the cloth spun by American women.
Name at least two of the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.