Although designed to maintain peace between the colonists and Native Americans, what law angered settlers who hoped to speculate, or buy as an investment, in western lands?

Parliament’s new strategy, however, had one major flaw: with the Stamp Act repealed, what did Britain still need to raise in the colonies to pay for troops and other expenses?

In 1774, Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony and to clamp down on resistance in other colonies. The British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the what?

In July 1775, moderates in Congress drafted what petition and sent it to London?

law placing a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies

The colonists’ complaints against Parliament were bitter, loud, and sometimes violent. But the most effective protest took the form of a what?

News of the Townshend Acts sparked immediate protest throughout the colonies. People were furious that Parliament had once again passed a tax without their consent. Colonists felt that only locally elected officials—rather than Parliament—should have the right to create what in the colonies?

In September 1774, delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia. At this meeting, called the _______, delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. (Fill in the blank)

During the summer of 1775, Washington arrived at the militia camp near Boston. He immediately began to gather supplies and train the army. In the fall, Washington approved a bold plan. Continental Army troops would invade ______, in eastern Canada. Where did they invade? (Fill in the blank)

acts passed by Parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the colonies

In addition to the cost of keeping troops in the colonies, Britain owed massive debts from which war?

John Adams , a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams, agreed to defend the which side in the court of the Boston Massacre?

Who were sent to spread news about British troop movements?

Common Sense had been written by who?

taxes placed on imported goods

Who was King George III

As the boycott spread throughout the colonies, more people became politically active. Many colonists who had not previously participated in politics now had a way of making their voices heard. For example, some women formed their own protest organization called what?

Lexington and Concord were the first battles of which war?

On what day did Congress adopt the document that proclaimed independence?

a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community

What is ‘to buy as an investment’

incident in 1773, when colonists protested British policies by boarding British ships and throwing their cargoes of tea overboard

group of armed civilians, trained to be ready to fight “at a minute’s warning”

What are cannons and large guns?

America’s Patriot army during the Revolutionary War