Colonial Acts
This law placed a direct tax on all paper goods and legal documents in the colonies.
This fiery Virginia orator famously shouted, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"
Patrick Henry
A widespread refusal by colonists to purchase British goods as a form of protest.
Boycott
This 1770 violent street conflict ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five colonial protestors.
Boston Massacre
A force made up of ordinary citizens who organize for military service rather than professional regular soldiers.
militia
These acts placed taxes on essential imported goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea as they arrived at colonial ports.
Townshend Acts
He was the political organizer who led the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
Formal agreements made by colonial merchants promising not to import or sell goods from Great Britain.
Non-importation Agreements
This is the idea that British can check people's property and ships for illegal goods
writs of assistance
This was how people from different colonies communicated with each other after the Intolerable Acts
This Act used Writs of Assistance to help ensure the law would be followed.
Townshend Acts
He is the leader of Great Britain who keeps encouraging Parliament to pass the laws the colonists dislike.
King George
Colonists used this illegal method to avoid paying taxes like the Sugar Act by trading with the French and other foreign markets.
Smuggling
The colonial protest against the Tea Act that directly triggered Great Britain to retaliate with the Intolerable Acts.
Boston Tea Party
The powerful British corporation granted an exclusive monopoly to sell tea directly to the American colonies.
British East India Company
This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies without stopping in Great Britain first.
Tea Act
Controlling all or most of a business is called this
monopoly
The primary slogan colonists rallied behind to express anger over paying taxes passed by a Parliament where they had no voice.
NO taxation without representation
Name 2 punishments for Boston Tea Party
Shut down Boston harbor and shut down Boston government
The main reason colonists believed tax laws passed after the French and Indian War were fundamentally unfair.
Lack of representation in Parliament
Great Britain passed these harsh laws to punish Massachusetts by shutting down Boston Harbor and suspending the local government.
Intolerable Acts
This is a letter of complaint sent to Parliament by the people of Virgnia
Grievance
This secret colonial group was organized specifically to coordinate rallies and oppose unfair British laws.
Sons of Liberty
As a result of the Intolerable Acts, the colonists got together and formed this
Continental Congress
All but which colony joined the Continental Congress (bonus: explain why)
Georgia