Unit 3 vocab quiz Flashcards
Benjamin Franklin
He was a founding father and scientist. During the French and Indian War, he attempted to unite the colonies and Native Americans against the French. He also was involved in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
The Boston Massacre
This event occurred when several British soldiers shot into a crowd of protestors after being harassed. Five protestors were killed, and the soldiers were forced to stand trial.
The Boston Tea Party
A protest against the Tea Act of 1773 performed by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The men boarded three ships filled with tea, broke the containers, and poured the tea overboard.
Boycott
The refusal to buy a good as part of a protest.
Common Sense
This was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged the thirteen colonies to seek independence from Great Britain.
Crispus Attucks
Attucks was the first person to be killed at the Boston Massacre. Attucks was most likely of Native American and African heritage.
Daughters of Liberty
This was a women led organization that formed to protest the Stamp Act and later British rule. They were known for spinning bees and their boycott of tea.
Effig
This is a straw model of a person. Usually these were created with the idea that they would be burned or destroyed as a protest.
First Continental Congress
The first gathering of representatives of the thirteen colonies. They met after the passage of the Intolerable Act. They agreed to continue boycotting British goods until the Intolerable Acts were repealed.
The French and Indian War
Pitting the French against the British, this war was fought in the American colonies for control of the Ohio River Valley. Each side had support from different Native American tribes.
Intolerable Acts
These laws were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The acts closed the port of Boston, restored British control of the colonial government, and denied the colonies their own trials.
John Adams
He was a founding father and second President of the United States. After the “Boston Massacre,” he helped to defend the British soldiers at trial.
King George III
He was the king of the United Kingdom during the American Revolution.
Loyalist
These were colonists who were in favor of British rule in the colonies.
Militia
Considered “citizen soldiers,” all able-bodied men were members of the militia during the colonial era.
Minutemen
Men who volunteered to serve as a militia member “At a minute’s notice.”
“No Taxation without Representation”
This slogan was developed in the colonies in protest to the taxes imposed by the British government. The colonists were asking for representation in Parliament in return for paying taxes.
Parliament
This is the system of representative government used in Great Britain.
Patrick Henry
A founding father best known as the former governor of Virginia. He is known for saying “Give me liberty or give me death!
Patriot
These were colonists who supported American independence.
Phillis Wheatley
She was the first published African American female poet. She wrote poetry while in slavery and after she was freed. Her poems were in favor of American Independence.
The Proclamation Line of 1763
This forbade colonial settlements past the Appalachian Mountains. It was created after the French and Indian War.
Pontiac’s War
A Native American rebellion caused by the British policies put in place after the French and Indian War. A leader of the Odawa, Pontiac was angered by the movement of English colonists on to Native American land after the French and Indian War.
The Quartering Act
An act passed that required colonists to provide housing and food for British Soldiers
Redcoats
British soldiers in the American colonies named for their distinctive red jackets.
Repeal
This means to cancel an act of law officially.
Sons of Liberty
These were a group of protesters in the colonial era who protested against British policies. Created by Samuel Adams, they created the motto “No taxation without representation.”
The Stamp Act
This act created a tax on many printed goods including newspapers and playing cards.
The Sugar Act
This act placed taxes on sugar and molasses and increased the enforcement of these taxes.
Thomas Jefferson
A founding father, slaveholder, and writer of the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third president of the United States.
Townshend Acts
These acts taxed glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea, When the Townshend Acts were repealed, the Tea Act was kept.
Tyranny
This term refers to cruel and unfair rule by government or a leader.
