Repeal of the Stamp Act stated that Parliament could make laws for the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever".
What is the Declaratory Act (British Imperial Policy)?
100
Tax on lead, paper, paint, tea, and glass.
What is the Townshend Act?
100
Snowball fight that ended with 5 dead colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Group that united colonies by writing letters that told what was happening in different colonies.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
200
Colonist dreseed up like Native Americans in protest to Townshend Acts.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
Laws to punish colonists included closing Boston Harbor, requiring colonists to allow soldiers to live with them, outlaw public meetings, and disbanding the elected assembly of Massachusetts.
What are Intolerable Acts?
200
Meeting of colonial representatives where a letter was written to the King explaining why taxing was unfair.
What is the First Continental Congress?
200
Refusal to buy products as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
300
Beginning of the war; first time Redcoats and Minutemen fight.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
Famous Virginian who tried to persuade colonists that taxes were unfair; "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
Colonists who warned towns of Concord and Lexington that "the Redcoats are coming".
Who is Paul Revere?
300
Colonists who supported the King.
Who are loyalist?
300
Colonist who believes that the colonies should not be ruled by England.
What is a patriot?
400
Colonist who started Committee of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty; wrote about the Boston Massacre.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
Colonial militia men who were ready to fight.
What are minutemen?
400
Known to be one of the first five people to die for the American cause for independence. Believed to be a runaway slave, working as a soldier in Boston.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
Author of famous pamplet, "Common Sense" and fist call for American indepedence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
Leader, King, during the time of the American Revolution. He was determined tokeep the american colonies and not to lose them.
Who is King George III?
500
A secret club with the motto "Join or Die". Main purpose was to organize protest and encourage boycotts of the English rules regarding taxes and governance. Members included Samual Adams and Paul Revere.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
500
Women who helped the pre-revolutionary cause by helping with the boycotts. Made homespun cloth; made things rather than buying taxed British imports; Raised money; Made goods for militiamen.