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