Where did the first battle for America's independence take place?
Lexington
The groups circulated calls for action against the British
Committees of Correspondence
Proclamation of 1763 banned colonists from moving west of which area?
Appalachian Mountains
Legal document that allowed customs officers to enter any location & search for smuggled goods
Writ of Assistance
Open defiance of authority
rebellion
Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
Preamble
Stuffed figures used in protest
effigies
to refuse to buy
boycott
The political body formed to challenge British control
Continental Congress
Leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
Name of the policies the British Parliament passed after the Boston Tea Party
The Coercive Acts
Name of the "Act" passed by Parliament to stop smuggling.
Sugar Act
to cancel an act or law
repeal
The "Acts" Britain repealed after the Boston Massacre....
The Townshend Acts
I persuaded the VA House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
George Grenville wanted Parliament to punish which group of people?
Smugglers
The author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Who ran the first Post Office established by the Continental Congress?
Benjamin Franklin
German troops who fought with British soldiers
Hessians