Famous Acts
Gave the British East India Company a monopoly of selling tea in the colonies.
The Tea Act
Protest by colonists against British goods.
Boycotts
British King at the start of the Revolutionary War
George III
British soldiers killed 5 colonists after they threw snowballs.
Boston Massacre
Document declaring colonies were free
Declaration of Independence
Taxed glass, paint, paper, and tea
The Townshend Acts
System to control colonial trade and wealth
Mercantilism
Samuel Adams started this secret organization
Sons of Liberty
First place to call for Independence from Britain
Virginia
Dumped tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Forced colonists to house and feed British troops
The Quartering Act
Nickname of British uniforms
Redcoat
Lawyer that defended British troops on murder charge
John Adams
First battle of the Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington and Concorde
Purpose of the commitee of correspondence
spread info and coordinate colonies
Pay for an official seal on printed materials
The Stamp Act
Rhode Islanders protested by burning this ship
Gaspee
people loyal to Britain were
loyalists
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris
Reason for Proclamation of 1763
prevent conflicts with Native Americans
Punishment for the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
This war left Britain in debt; They wanted to tax the colonies for it.
French Indian War
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Colony where the first battle was fought
Massachusetts
1774 response to British actions
1st Continental Congress
Enforce trade restrictions on colonists
The Navigation Acts
This agreement prevented Colonists from going west in 1763.
The Proclamation of 1763.
Last attempt to negotiate peace with Britain
2 Continental Congress
First colonial assembly was called
House of Burgess
King George III rejected this document before the war
Olive Branch Petition