A group of British representatives who make laws
Parliament
refusing to buy from a company or country as a form of protest is
Boycott
Sugar Act
Tax paid on Sugar
Quartering Act
required colonists to house and take care of soldiers
Townshend act gave tax collectors power to
search homes and businesses for smuggled goods.
Unofficial policy of relaxing trade rules and laws
Salutary neglect
Money the government takes to use is called
Tax
Stamp Act
A tax stamp was placed on all paper products
Stamp act and Sugar act led to what famous phrase
No Taxation without Representation
Who made the Boston massacre image
Paul Revere
A form of peaceful protest that includes boycotts and not paying taxes
Civil Disobedience
Mercantilism states that the colonies exist to transfer wealth to the
Mother country
Townshend Act
Tax on lead glass paper
What act did the British repeal because of attacks on Tax collectors?
Stamp Acts
**Intolerable acts, what were the 4 punishments
Closed the Boston Harbor
Forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their homes. (Quartering Act)
Took away the colonies self-government by banning town meetings.
Allowed British officials accused of crimes to be tried in Britain, not in the colonies.
Grievance
a written complaint over something unfair.
What war caused the large British debt
French and Indian
Navigation Act
Forced the colonist to trade with Britain
What act happened after the Boston Tea Party
The intolerable acts
The major meeting of the colonist after the Intolerable acts
First Continental Congress
Boycott
not buying a product from a company or country as a form of protest.
Name of the area the colonist were not allowed to enter after the war
Ohio River Valley
Tea Act
Forced the colonist to buy tea from the East India Company
What act led to the Boston Massacre
Townshend Act
Colonist boycotted British goods