American Revolution Ch 6-8

Name That Person:

He was a colonist who strongly protested the Stamp Act and was also a member of the Virginia assembly, known as the Virginia House of Burgesses.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Crispus Attucks

• Patrick Henry

Name That Person:

He was once enslaved and worked as a sailor and was the first African American to die for the cause of American

liberty in what was called the Boston Massacre.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Crispus Attucks,

• Patrick Henry

Name That Person:

He advocated for American rights against British tax impositions under the Stamp Act; even though he angered some of the colonists.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Crispus Attucks,

• Patrick Henry

Name That Group:

They threatened British tax collectors and also organized

a boycott of British goods.

• Boy Scouts of America

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

Name That Group:

They helped with the boycott of British goods by weaving their own cloth.

• Boy Scouts of America

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

The Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty, and the many other

people who supported the colonists’ cause also gave themselves

another name. What was it?

• Patriots

• Freedom Lovers

• Loyalists

Name that Event:

The British king, George III, drew a line running along the Appalachian Mountains from New York all the way south to Georgia that no more colonists were allowed to settle west of that line.

• Boston Massacre

• Proclamation of 1763

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

Name that Event:

It required colonial governments to supply a place to live for the British soldiers.

• Boston Massacre

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

Name That Event:

This British law made colonists pay a tax on just about every kind of printed paper; about fifty different items in all.

• Boston Massacre

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

Name That Event:

It was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.

• Boston Massacre

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act