Chapter Four The American Revolution

This act required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac, and imposed special taxes on packages of playing cards and dice.

One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty, he found a talent for being a powerful and influential political activist.

This act was an indirect tax levied on imported materials like glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea.

An armed clash that erupted between the colonists and the British, leaving Crispus Attucks and four others dead.

The Assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginia set these up to communicate with other colonies about threats to American liberties by the British.

In this incident, Colonists dressed as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of the East India Company’s tea into the waters of Boston Harbor.

This person was the monarch of Great Britain during the American Revolution.

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing a series of measures that colonists called:

In September 1774, 56 delegates (from 12 of the colonies) met in Philadelphia and drew up a declaration of colonial rights, they defended their right to run their own affairs. What was this meeting called?

Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the American Revolution, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.