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The ______was responsible for creating laws back in England/Great Britain. Had representatives for the people in England, but NOT for the colonists.
Parliament
One result of the Boston Massacre was the repeal of the __________ Acts.
Tea
Paul Revere created the engraving of the ______ that was published in the newspapers and made the colonists look like victims, viciously attacked by the redcoats.
Boston Massacre
As it repealed the Stamp Act, the British Parliament asserted its right to tax the colonies with the _________ Act; which said the Parliament had the right to make all laws and decisions for the colonists.
Declaratory
Colonists formed this secret society Sons if Liberty and sometimes used violence to frighten _________. They burned effigies and raided warehouses and government offices.
tax collectors
Vice-Admiralty Courts were military courts set up for trials of people caught __________. Judges with no juries would decide if someone was guilty or innocent. People had to prove they were ______.
smuggling
The purpose of the series of ________ Acts passed by Parliament between 1650 and 1696 was to require colonists to trade only with the country or colonies that owned them.
Navigation
The _______ Act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies, like playing cards, licenses, newspapers and court documents.
Stamp
James Otis - This colonial leader argued that the power of the Crown and Parliament was limited. He said they could not “take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by representation.” This means, “No Taxation without__________.”
Representation
A very one-sided telling of the event is called _______, and is used to convince people to follow a certain group or idea.
propaganda
The colonists were used to making decisions on a _____ level and were angry that they did not have any representatives in __________ to argue for their rights.
local, Parliament
______ - A popular method of protest in which people refused to buy British manufactured goods. Colonists hoped that their efforts would hurt British merchants so that they would then convince the government in England to change the laws or get rid of taxes. It works, but takes a while to be successful.
Boycott
Colonists formed this secret society _________ and sometimes used violence to frighten tax collectors.
Sons of Liberty
________- Women in Boston calling for support of the boycott against British manufactured goods and tea. Wanted people to create and use local versions of these high end British products.
Daughters of Liberty
The Boston Tea Party clearly demonstrated how ____ the colonists were with the British East India Company and the new policy on selling cheap untaxed tea to the colonists directly.
angry
Great Britain issued the ________ to keep the peace with Native Americans and save money on military troops after the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.
Proclamation of 1763
The ________ Act placed taxes on imported items parliament thought colonists couldn't do without like glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint.
Townshend
Vice-Admiralty Courts were ________ courts set up for trials of people caught smuggling.
military
In 1764, Parliament passed the ________ Act. The British prime minister made that request in order to pay the costs of the French and Indian War, stop the smuggling of rum, molasses and sugar and pay for more soldiers to protect the colonists.
Sugar
The Stamp Act of 1765 was particularly upsetting to the colonists because it was the first time that Parliament had tried to ________ . Only we paid for the stamps.
tax the colonists directly
James Otis - This colonial leader argued that the power of the Crown and Parliament was limited. He said they could not “take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by representation.” This means, “No _______ without Representation.”
Taxation
The British called the laws that were punishment for the Boston Tea Party the __________ Acts because they were trying to force the colonists to behave. The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts because they could not put up with the new rules.
Coercive
James Otis' slogan "No Taxation without Representation" was the colonial response to the _____ Act.
Sugar
The British called the laws that were punishment for the Boston Tea Party the Coercive Acts because they were trying to force the colonists to behave. The colonists called them the _________ Acts because they could not put up with the new rules.
Intolerable
To search a colonists house, a British customs officer presented a ___________ which was like a super search warrant that allowed them to search all of your stuff at any time looking for smuggled goods.
Wit of Assistance