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History Unit 5
2/21/10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Currency Act (1764) | colonist can not print their own money |
| Quartering Act (1765) | colonist must provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers |
| Stamp Act (1765) | placed a tax on every kind of printed material (newspapers, legal documents) |
| Townshed Act (1767) | taxes on imported goods |
| Tea Act (1770) | tax on tea and it tried to get the colonist to buy their tea from a British company. |
| Coercive Act (1774) | angered many colonist but also made them more united |
| Sugar Act (1764) | placed a tax on molasses and sugar |
| Pontiac | an Ottawa leader who led a rebellion against British settlers and soldiers |
| George III | King of England during all this. issued the Proclamation of 1763 |
| Crispus Attucks | African American was the first of five colonists who were killed in the Boston Massacre |
| Paul Revere | rode out from Boston to warn the towns that the British are coming |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of men who became protesters who burn stamps |
| Daughters of Liberty | group of women who wove cloth and made other goods to replace imported British goods |
| Samuel Adams | sent a letter asking colonists to come together to fight against Britain |
| Benjamin Franklin | was a publisher and scientist from Pennsylvania who helped write the Decoration of Independence |
| George Washington | fought with the British during the French and Indian war. Became the commander of the continental army and fought against the British in the american revolution. |
| Committees of Correspondence (1772) | a group of people who carried letters with news from each committee from town to town on horseback. Samuel Adams sent a circular letter asking colonist to come together against Britain |
| Albany Congress (1754) | delegates of seven colonists and 150 members of the Iroquois Confederacy met in Albany, New York. Showed they could work together. |
| First Continental Congress (1774) | met in Philadelphia and formed a Continental Army that made a final attempt to avoid war. Was a response to colonists asking for Britain to repeal taxes. |
| Second Continental Congress (1775) | relations with Britain weren't improving, started the Continental Army led by George Washington. Going to war. |
| Declaration of Independence (1776) | Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine 1776 | published a booklet called Common Sense and argued that people have the right to govern themselves rather than be ruled by a king |
| Tomas Jefferson | wrote the declaration of independence. he included key political ideas to explain why the colonies wanted freedom. |
| John Hancock | the first signer of the declaration of independence |
| James Otis | a colonist from Massachusetts and spoke out against unfair taxation. taxation without representation is tyranny 1776 declared a law that the British soldiers couldn't search the colonists homes for illegal goods |
| Patrick Henry | gave an emotional speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses that convinced many Virginians to oppose the stamp act. said give me liberty or give me death |
| John Adams | wrote the decoration of independence with Jefferson and Franklin. also defended soldiers in a trial, because he believed everyone as a right to a free trial |
| Olive Branch Petition | Letter to King George Saying that the colonist were still Loyal to Britian and that war could be avoided if they were given more freedom to govern themselves. The King never answered. |
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