A set of laws that the parliament put in 1767 to put new taxes on imported goods and basic items like tea, glass, paper, and lead.
What is Townshend Act?
100
mad because couldn’t move west
felt unfair
alarmed the colonists
limit on their freedom
What is the colonist's reaction to the Proclamation of 1763?
100
This act lowered the taxes on goods.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
He is a statesmen and he helped found the Sons of Liberty organization. These members went on the streets to protest and boycott against the taxes and British goods.
Who is Samuel Adams?
100
The destruction of tea in the Boston harbor, it was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
Incoming money.
What is revenue?
200
felt major violation of their rights
not fair
cannot tax without consent
What is the colonist's reaction to the Sugar Act?
200
Indicated that an object was sold with tax, and taxed people without their consent. This led to boycotting British and European goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
British general, and military commander in the Early American Revolution days. He had most troops under his control.
Who is Thomas Gage?
200
An act to give this area larger land that made them feel belonged to them.(same land from the Proclamation of 1763 that the British refused to let the colonists settle in)
What is the Quebec Act?
300
To cancel something?
What is repeal?
300
no voice because it taxed colonists without their consent and felt like the parliament in Britain were interfering with their business in America
What is the colonists's reaction to the Stamp Act?
300
Series of laws the parliament wrote in 1767, while lowered the chaos on the Stamp Act.
What is the Townshend Act?
300
Leaders of Sons and Liberty. THey rode on horses and informed towns that the British are coming and they should hide their weapons.
Who are Paul Revere and William Dawes?
300
THe militias ran out of gun powder. They fought hard and made the British lose 73, and 175 people dead. The Englsih surrendered.
What is the reason for the Lexington and Concord war to end?
400
To not import food or sell goods from other regions and countries.
What is nonimportation?
400
It avoided some problems the Stamp Act caused, and they felt better that the Stamp Act was dying down because of it.
What is the colonist's reaction to the Townshend Act?
400
A group of citizens who fight and form an army.
Who are the militias?
400
June 16 1775 about 1,200 militiamen set up for fortification. In the end the Americans ran out of gunpowder and had to forfeit
The British won this battle but lost many