Vocab
What does it to cancel?
Ex: the Stamp Act was ________
to repeal
Who was the law making assembly, who made the taxes for the colonists?
Parliament
What was the event in 1770 where British soldiers shot five colonists?
The Boston Massacre
Who was the group of people who led protests against the new taxes?
The Sons of Liberty
What is a tax on imported goods?
Tariff
What was the law that placed a tax on printed materials?
The Stamp Act
Who was the group of people who helped organize the boycott of British goods?
The Daughters of Liberty
A boycott
What was the law that replaced a tax on imported goods from Britain?
The Townshend Acts
The event where Colonists dumped British Tea into Boston Harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
Who was the group that let colonists share information by mail?
Committee of Correspondence
What is a volunteer army?
What was the act that forced colonists to pay taxes on British tea?
Tea Act
What was the group of people who were against the British rule called?
The Patriots
Who were the militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice?
The minutemen
What were the five acts passed by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party called?
The Intolerable Acts
What did the British do to demonstrate to the colonists that they were still in charge?
Sent warships to the harbor
What was the group of people who were loyal to King George and the British government?
The Loyalists