Lesson 1
budget
Stamp Act
tax on paper items such as newspaper, legal documents and playing cards. Items had to have a stamp on it to prove the tax was paid.
What are minutemen?
militia that were ready to fight in minutes
boycott
refuse to buy or support
Who were the people who made their own thread and cloth to protest the taxes on cloth?
Daughters of Liberty
France and Britain fighting for land
French and Indian War 1754
the people wanted to have a say in the laws
First Continental Congress
First meeting with all the colonist leaders to go against the King.
treason
working against the government
What did Parliament do?
make laws
An agreement gave Britain most of Canada and France gets lands east of Mississippi River and Spanish Florida
Treaty of Paris
Taxing import; goods coming into the colonies such as glass, tea, paint, paper, etc.
The Townshed Act
The Coercive Act or the Intolerable ActT
his law forced people to house and feed soldiers, closed the ports until people paid for all the tea that was destroyed.
representation
someone to speak or act for the people
Why were the Native Americans angry with the British colonists?
The Native Americans were angry with the colonist because they were pushing them off their land.
King George wanted to end the fighting of Native Americans and Britain. He gave land west of the Appalacian Mountains to Native Americans
The Proclamation of 1763
colonist upset with British soldiers; made fun of them, threw rock and snowball, knocked them down
soldiers got angry and shot 5 colonist
Boston Massacre
Colonist threw 300 chests of tea into the water because they were upset about the law that taxed tea. What is that event known as?
The Boston Tea party
revolution
Sudden complete change in government
Warned the colonist about British attack.
Paul Revere
taxed sugar and molasses
Group of men who tried to stop tax collectors
Sons of Liberty
The law that taxed tea and said colonist could only buy tea from the India Tea Company.
The Tea Act
Monopoly
What word means complete control of goods?
What did the Sons of Liberty do to the tax collectors?
They tar and feathered the tax collectors