laws/acts/policies
this said colonists couldn't live/settle past the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
publication of Common Sense
What is January, 1776?
colonists dressed up as indians, snuck onto a ship with tea and threw it into the water (overboard)
What is the Boston Tea Party?
women that formed secret societies
What were the Daughters of Liberty?
information used to influence people's thinking or behavior
What is propoganda?
these laws closed port of Boston until destroyed tea was paid for AND greatly restricted representative government in Massachusetts AND allowed British commanders to house troops wherever necessary AND allowed British officials accused of crime to stand trial in Britain instead of the colonies
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Declaration of Independence adopted
What is July 4, 1776?
troops were sent to keep order in Boston, people were calling each other names and throwing snowballs at buildings followed by a squad of soldiers showing up who started firing and killing or wounding some colonists
What is the Boston Massacre?
men that formed secret societies
What were the Sons of Liberty?
legal pieces of paper that said officers had the right to search any building for any reason
What were writs of assistance?
laws which suspended New York's assembly AND placed duties on glass, paint, paper, lead and tea brought into colonies
What are the Townshend Acts?
Boston Massacre
What is 1770?
boycotting, burning stamp paper and tarring and feathering officials were ways they protested the what
What is the Stamp Act?
an army of ordinary citizens instead of trained soldiers
What is a militia?
name given to militia because they were ready to fight at a minutes notice
What were minutemen?
this required that each sheet of every legal document carry a stamp showing that a tax had been paid
What is the Stamp Act?
Stamp Act
What is 1765?
the place were colonists were told by British officers to put down there arms, but the colonists didn't and people shot leaving some colonists dead
What is Lexington?
people who sided with (supported) the British
What were loyalists?
people who sided with (supported) the minutemen
What were Patriots?
this only kept a tax on tea and was an attempt by Parliament to show colonists that it still had the right to tax them and aimed to help the British East India Company by giving it total control over the tea trade
What is the Tea Act?
What is Concord?