Resistance to Brtain

Question 1

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 1

• 1765 - New York City
• 27 delegates from 9 colonies
• formal statement to Parliament about taxation

Question 2

Townshend Act

Answer 2

• 1767
• New taxes from Parliament
• tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, tea
• more taxation without representation

Question 3

the Boston Massacre

Answer 3

• 1770
• 60 townspeople march in protest to taxes and throw snowballs at soldiers
• British troops open fire
• 11 killed or wounded in Boston

Question 4

the Committee of Correspondence

Answer 4

• 1772
• letters and communication exchanged in the colonies
• by 1773, every colony was in comunication about possible revolutionary action

Question 5

Intolerable Acts

Answer 5

• December 1773 - the Boston Tea Party
• 1774 - Reaction to Boston Tea Party in 1773
• Colonists are not allowed to hold assembly
• New Quartering Act for colonies - to include private homes
• Boston Port Act - closed harbor until damages from Tea Party were paid

Question 6

First Continental Congress

Answer 6

• 1774
• Philadelphia
• consider ways to address grievances with Britain
• wrote the “declaration of rights”
• 12 of 13 colonies represented (not Georgia)

Question 7

common sense

Answer 7

• 1776
• Thomas Paine
• true cause should be total independence from Great Britain
• first thoughts of a totally new nation

Question 8

the Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

• July 4, 1776
• Thomas Jefferson
• Philadelphia Congress (Second Continental Congress)
• natural rights of humankind
• directed at king George III in Britain
• all those who signed it had committed treason in the eyes of Britain

Question 9

remember this…

Answer 9

the Declaration of Independence is basically a formal “break up” letter with King George III

Question 10

a special congress was created in the colonies as a result of which tax

Answer 10

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