GT Humanities Unit 2 Test Review: Causes of the American Revolution

George Grenville

Prime Minister who asked Parliament to tax the colonists

James Otis

Came up with the slogan, "No Taxation without Representation."

Samuel Adams

Founded the Boston branch of the Sons of Liberty

Boycott

Refusing to buy products as a method of protest

Stamp Act

Required colonists to purchase a stamp to be placed on all paper goods

Declaratory Act

Issued after the repealed Stamp Act-asserted that Britain had the rights to make all laws for the Colonies

Townshend Acts

Placed a tax on paint, paper, lead, glass and tea

The Liberty

Ship seized by British Tax Collectors; caused massive uprising in Boston

Paul Revere

Gained fame for his engraving of the Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

Freed slave killed at the Boston Massacre

Propaganda

Paul Revere's engraving is a classic example of...

Boston Tea Party

Event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

Proclamation of 1763

Prevented colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Sugar Act

Placed a tax on imported sugar and molasses

Popular Consent

The idea that people have given their permission through direct voting or representatives

Committees of Correspondence

Meetings where members were informed of new British Laws, who would then decide on how to resist.

New York, 1765

Where did the first colonial boycott take place, and in what year?

Stamp Act Congress

Group that met in New York and wrote a letter to Britain claiming the Stamp Act violated their natural rights

First time that Parliament taxed the colonists directly

Stamp Act

Daughters of Liberty

Women leaders of boycotts and protests made goods currently being boycotted

Boston Massacre

Incident in which 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers in Boston

Who stated, "I look upon British Soldiers as foriegn enemies?"

Samuel Adams

John Adams and Josiah Quincy

The two men who defended the British Soldiers charged with murder after the Boston Massacre

Tea Act

This act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea

Coercive Acts

Name of the acts that Britain placed on Massachusetts in reponse to the Boston Tea Party

Why were the colonists upset over the Sugar Act, even though it actually lowered the sax on sugar?

No taxation without representation

Year of the Sugar Act

1764

Year of the Stamp Act

1765

Year of the Quartering Act

1765

Year of the Townshend Acts

1767

Year the Townshend Acts were repealed

1770

Year of the Boston Massacre

1770 (March 5)

Year of the Tea Act

1773

Year of the Boston Tea Party

1773 (December 16)

Year of the Coercive Acts

1774

Intolerable Acts

Name the colonists gave to the Coercive Acts

King of England

King George III

Closed Boston's port

Intolerable Acts

Mercantilism

Mother country controlled the trade of the colonies