Peeps
He was the King of England during this time who wanted colonists to obey British law and pay their taxes
King George III
This act gave customs agents the ability to search homes and businesses of the colonists
Sugar Act
This act/decision prevented the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation of 1763
We call them warrants today, but back then they were known as
writs of assistance
This event led to the killing of 4 colonists in Boston by British troops, enflaming anger at Britain
The Boston Massacre
Restarted the committees of correspondence in the colonies to coordinate against the British
Sam Adams
This act placed a tax on wills, newspapers, and even playing cards in the colonies
This Act lowered the tax on molasses in the colonies
Sugar Act
incoming money for a gov't
revenue
Pledges signed by colonial merchants to not buy British goods
Non-importation agreements
He was responsible for the engraving of the Boston massacre that showed British troops happily killing colonists
Paul Revere
The Act took colonist right to a trial by jury away and replaced it with a judge that was a naval officer
The Sugar Act
The British name for the act that shut down Boston harbor, ban town meetings and put redcoats into Bostonians homes
Coercive Acts
rag figures burned to show colonial displeasure with taxes
effegies
These groups circulated colonial grievances against British actions and taxes throughout the colonies
Committees of Correspondence
The Prime Minister of England that wanted to stop colonial smuggling to get more taxes to pay off the French and Indian War.
George Grenville
The colonists name for the act that closed Boston harbor, ban town meetings and put troops in colonists homes without their consent
Intolerable Acts
This act was passed to save the East India company by giving them a monopoly over the selling of tea in the colonies
The Tea Act
A formal expression of opinion
resolution
refusing to buy goods
boycotting
He was one of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty and participated in the Boston Tea Party
Sam Adams
This act said that parliament had the authority to make decisions for the colonies in all matters
Declaratory Act
This act place a tax on British good at the Ports of Entry, that colonial merchants had to pay. It was not a direct tax on the colonists
Townshend Act
information meant to influence opinion
propaganda
This was a dramatic act of defiance against the British tea tax in Boston
The Boston tea party