Vocab
A form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services.
Boycott
To cancel or nullify, especially a law.
Repeal
A tax on imports
Duty
Large guns that can fire over a long distance.
Artillery
An American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution.
Loyalist
Military force made up of local citizens to help protect their town, land, or nation.
Militia
The British law that lowered the dit on molasses to cut out smuggling so that the British would get the revenue.
Sugar Act
A legal document giving authorities the right to enter and search a home or business.
Writ of Assistance
The 1774 meeting of representatives from all American colonies to decide on a response to the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress
The study of the processes that shape Earth’s rocks and landforms.
Geology
Income; money that is received.
Revenue
An objection or reason to complain.
Grievance
The British law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers.
Stamp Act
The British law that regulated paper money in the American colonies.
Currency Act
Human-made land modifications.
Earthwork
One of several British laws that required American colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers stationed in North America.
Quartering Act
Unjust rule by an absolute ruler.
Tyranny
The British law stating that only the East India Company was allowed to sell tea to the American colonists.
Tea Act
A set of British laws that placed duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint; required colonists to purchase from Britain.
Townshend Acts
An American colonist who supported the right of the American colonies to govern themselves.
Patriot
The 1779 incident in which British soldiers fired on locals who had been taunting them.
Boston Massacre
A law requiring colonists to stay east of a line drawn on a map along the crest of the Appalachian mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
The 1773 incident in which the Sons of Liberty boardeed British ships and dumped their cargo in protest of British taxes on the colonists.
Boston Tea Party
In the revolutionary era, a group of colonists whose duty it was to spread news about protests against the British.
Committee of Correspondence
An American colonial militia member who was ready to join in combat at a moment’s notice.
Minutemen