Stamp Act
The name of the group that met to contest the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This placed a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What was the Townshend Acts?
Samuel Adams.
This act taxed sweeteners.
What was the Sugar Act of 1764?
Clandestine meeting at night at the Boston harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The name of the British government who issued the Stamp Act.
What is Parliament?
British officials searched for these specific goods.
What are smuggled goods?
Sarah Bradlee Fulton.
Who founded the Daughters of Liberty?
Also known as the Sugar Act of 1773, made tea cheaper for colonists.
What was the Tea Act?
The congress that met about the Stamp Act.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
The colonial reaction to the Stamp Act.
What is a boycott?
The authority the British used to enforce the Townshend Acts.
What are the writs of assistance?
Came up with the idea to dress the colonists in Native American uniforms for the Boston Tea Party.
Who was Sarah Bradlee Fulton?
This act was retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Groups in each colony founded by Samuel Adams to protest British goods and communicate between colonies.
What was the Committee of Correspondence?
What is the Declaratory Act?
The reaction of the colonists against the Townshend Acts.
What is a boycott?
Samuel Adams
This act is a direct violation of the (future) third amendment.
What was The Quartering Act?
This became the basis for the Continental Congresses.
"Give me liberty of give me death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
The women who supported the boycott.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
The name of the ship that tax collectors seized on suspicion of smuggling. This angered the Sons of Liberty.
What was the Liberty?
Name 1 more consequence of the Intolerable Acts.
What was closing of the Boston harbor?
What was the Quebec Act - giving land to Quebec (booooo)?
Who was General Thomas Gage, new governor of Massachusetts?
Name 1 of the important women mentioned in this section AND what they did.
Who was Mercy Otis Warren, who wrote plays to protest the British?
Who was Sarah Bradlee Fulton, who founded the Daughters of Liberty?