Question | Answer |
British Monarch, wanted to enforce the proclaimation and keep peace with Britains Native Americans | King George 111 |
this was the cost saving meausure that was required to the colonies to quarter the british soliders to pay for their supplies | Quartering act |
a income, or to meet expenses that Britain used | revenue |
A law that placed a tax o Sugar,molasses and other products shipped to the coloinies | Sugar act |
a law that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax has been paid | Stamp act |
a member of the virginias house of burgesses called for resistence to the tax | Patrick Henry |
the refusal to buy something | boycott |
were lawyers merchants and crafstpeople who these groupes staged prortests on the Stamp Act | Sons of Liberty |
Knew about the struggle of freedom, attucks escaped and spent the next 20 years as a sailor | Crispus Attucks |
a parliament passed in 1767 that suspended new yorks assembley until New yorkers agreed to provide housing for troops | Townshend Acts |
also known as search warrants to enter homes or buisnesses to search for smuggled goods | writs of assistance |
a leader of the sons of liberty, urged colonists to keep resisting British controls | Samuel Adams |
a fight broke out among the british and Boston and they started firing | Boston Massacre |
a lawyer that defended the red coats, and thought it was self defense, and British were not guilty | John Adams |
when Samuel Adams wanted to make sure that people didnt forget the cause of liberty he went telling all the towns | commitee of corespondence |
protested against the Tea Act so on December 16,1773 many colonist dumped tea into the sea | Boston Tea Party |
a force of armed civilians | militia |
trained to be ready to act at a minutes warning | Minuteman |
a series of laws passed to punish the colonies and to serve as a warning | Intolerable Acts |
delagates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable acts were repealed | First Continental Congress |
a boston silversmith that was in charge to spread the news about british troop movement | Paul Revere |
were the first battles of the Revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
those who supported Britain | Loyalists |
those who sided with the rebels | Patriots |
led the Green Mts. Boys to gather supplies | Ethan Allen |
canjnon or large guns(supply of weapons) | artilllery |
group of delagates that agreed in May 1775 to approve the Declaration of Independence | Secondary Continental Congress |
a colonial force authorized by the Secondary Continental Congress IN 1775 | Continental Army |
a officer who took role in the victory of Fort Ticonderoga | Benidict Arnold |
a draft created to give all the colonies Independence that was signed by many | Declaration of Independence |
wrote the Declaration of Independence, who also had a passion to invent things | Thomas Jefferson |