The American Revolution

Question 0

Sugar act

Answer 0

Parliament put a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the French and Spanish West Indies
No taxation without representation
Free subjects to slaves
Pm wanted colonists to pay for British troops
Impacted and hurt rum trade

Question 1

Boston tea party

Answer 1

1773
Help British company and reduce smuggling
Political protest by the sons of liberty

Question 2

Stamp act

Answer 2

Passed by British parliament
Tax on specific documents
Required stamps on all documents
Reaction: protests, stamp act congress-> petition to parliament, boycotts, eventually repealed

Question 3

Townshed act

Answer 3

1767
Taxes: lead, paper, glass, paint, and tea.
Writ of assistance: British soldiers could search a home without a warrant
Reaction: protest taxation w/o representation

Question 4

Tea act

Answer 4

1773
Restructured current tax 
- benefit the British East India company 
- hurt colonial tea merchants
Reaction: Boston tea party

Question 5

Intolerable acts

Answer 5

1774
Series of laws
Closed the port of Boston-> royal government had more control over MA
- imposed more quartering laws
Reaction: first continental congress forms and sends a list of grievances to parliament

Question 6

Lexington and concord

Answer 6

April 1775
Started American Revolutionary War. Tensions were building between 13 colonies and British authorities. On night of April 18 British troops marched from Boston to concord in order to seize gunpowder. Paul revere sounded the alarm and colonial militia began to intercept redcoats. A confrontation on the Lexington green started off the fighting and soon the British retreated under intense fire. In 1783 colonists won independence