Social Studies

What was the significance of Lexington and Concord?

Britsh troops take over the town of Lexington and then march to Concord. This turns into the American Revoolution.

What impact did the intolerable acts have in the colonies?

They had to pay for lost tea

What were the intolerable acts

Also known as the coercive acts, these laws were designed to punish the massachusetts

List the 4 punishments during the intlerable acts

1. Colonists had to pay for the destroyed tea

2. Banned committees of correspondence

3. Continued quartering troops

4. British soldiers accused of crimes would now stand trial in England

Describe the boston tea party

Sons of liberty members disguised as native Americans boarded cargo ships and dumped tea into boston harbor

Describe the Boston massacre

Colonists and British soldiers get into a confornatation outside of a customs house. (Killed 5 colonists)

How did colonists protests the Townshend acts

Parliament put extra taxes on things

what were the Townshend acts

Suspend assemblies until the colonists paid for quartering British soldiers

How did the sons of liberty fight for liberty in the colonies

Burned paper and tarred feathered custom officlas

Who were the sons of liberty

Secret group that organized protests and boycotts of British goods

Describe the quartering act

Soldiers now had to live with and be supplied by the colonies

What did the colonists resent the most about the stamp act

It was unfair because it applied to everyone

What was the sugar act

Direct tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies

The proclamation of 1763 was designed to promote peace, instead, what was the response by colonists to this British action?

The colonists cant move west anymore, and British made more taxes

What was the proclamation of 1763

Parliament makes proclamation law that says the colonists can not move west of the Appalachian Mountains

Define a patriot and loyalist

A patriot is a person who rebels against Britain and a Loyalist is someone who’s loyal to britain

What major affects did the French and Indian war have on the colonies

Bad relationship with natives and big war debts

What was the stamp act

This act taxed all legal and commerical documents (all paper goods)

What was the relationship like between most patriot and Loyalist

They did not like each other