Why did Britain try to tax the colonies?

Why did the colonists cry “No taxation without representation”?

How did the colonists protest the Towshend Acts?

True or false. The Sons of Liberty exaggerated the Boston Massacre incident to raise ant-British feelings.

True or False. Groups of leaders in various towns and colonies exchanged emails and messages in a bottle to relay information.

What prompted the Boston Tea Party?

Who was NOT one of the riders of the Midnight Ride?

Where was the1st Continental Congress held?

Why did Britain pass the Intolerable Act?

Creating a trained force and getting enough supplies were the main two reasons for George Washington's lack of success in forming an army. True or False?

What is the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that gave arguments for independence.

This was the battle on the hills above Charlestown, across the bay from Boston, in which the British defeated the militia but suffered causalities in their victory.

What was the main idea or purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

_____________is the name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.

______________ is also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.

_________________ an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.

The refusal to buy is also called "boycott". True or False?

What are writs of assistance?

__________________was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution

_____________was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

______________ was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

_____________________ were the American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution, when the deteriorating relationship with Great Britain made it increasingly important for the colonies to share ideas and information.

True or False, The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea?

The 1st Continental Congress was created to implement punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

Minutemen were a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

A ___________ is a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause.

_______________were civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were also known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name.

Artillery is large-caliber guns used in warfare on land. True or False?

__________was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He previously served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.

was an American military officer who served as a general during the American Revolutionary War, fighting for the American Continental Army before defecting to the British in 1780.

Another name for the Seven Years War is:______

What two challenges did George Washington face when forming an army?

Which of these are NOT part of our natural rights?

_____________was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the Revolutionary War.