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This act demanded that colonists provide money to house and supply British troops in America | Quartering act |
This act imposed an import tazx on foreign sugar, molasses and several other items entering Great Britain's American colonies | Sugar Act |
Laws passed by the British to punish the colonists becasue of the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable acts |
When representatives from the colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss their grievances and consider their options in dealing with the British | First Continental Congress |
When this rebellion ended the British obtained military control of Indian lands in the west | Pontiac's rebellion |
This law gave Parliament " full power and authority" of parliament to make laws in America | Declatory Act |
This act extended Quebec's boundary south to the Ohio river overriding the claims of Connecticut, massachusetts, and Virgina to the disputed western lands | Quebec act |
Chosen by the 2nd Continental Congress to command the Continental Army | George Washington |
Tha man most responsible for the writing of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
This group of people supported the colonial battle for freedom | Patriots |
What did the Proclamation of 1763 prohibit? | Colonial settlement farther west than the Appalacian Mountains |
Laws that placed import duties on tea, lead, glass and dyes for paint | Townshend Acts |
A colonial protest against the Britich that turned deadly | Boston Massacre |
Define Proclamation of 1763 | Prevented colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
A tax issued by British on advertisements, diplomas, legal documents, newspapers and playing cards | Stamp Act |
A meetint tha ttook place in Philadelphia with the idea of declaring independence from Britain and establishign a continental army | Second continental congress |
Colonists dumped tea into the boston harbor in protest of British Taxes | Boston Tea party |
The law that excused the company from paying duties and sell tea directly to American agents | Tea Act |
Be able to place the following events in order stamp act boston masssacre, treaty of paris signed, sugar act, declaration of independence signed, battle of lexington and concord | Sugar act, stamp act, boston massacre, battle of lexington and concord, declaration of indep[endence signed, treaty of paris signed |
People who remained loyal to the British crown | loyalists |
This man did most of the writing of the declaration of independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Monarch who believed the British needed to tax the colonists to show them they could | King George III |
Man c hosed to command the continental army | George Washington |
Led the colonists in letting the king know of their dissatisfaction and led the committee of correspondance in keepiong the world up to date on the violations of the British | Samuel Adams |
Defind 1st continental congress | A canvention where delegates from the colonies discussed their grievances abou thte Britis |
How did colonists react to the Britich imposed tea act | they refused to buy tea |
Define 2nd continental Congress | A meeting of the colonies in Philadelphia conc erning declaring independence from Britain and estalishing a Continental Army |
Who was King George III | British King that wanted to tax the colonies to show that he could |
Who was the Indian chief that led the rebellion against Britain in order to get them out of Indian territory | Chief Pontiac |
Man who wrote the pamphlet" common sense" | Thomas Paine |
Man who gave the speech " give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
Colonists who supported independence | Patriots |
A grop of colonists that formed to protest the Stamp act | Sons of Liberty |
Which battle ended the Revolutionary war | Saratoga |
The proclamation of 1763 prohibited? | Continental sttlement cannot settle any further west of the appalachian mountains. |