British Policies
This 1765 law required colonists to buy a seal for all printed documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists dumped British tea into the harbor during this 1773 protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The phrase colonists used to protest taxes passed by a body they had no representatives in.
What is 'no taxation without representation'?
This deadly clash between colonists and British soldiers occurred in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
He defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This set of duties taxed goods like glass, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
1765 meeting brought together delegates to protest the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This economic protest involved refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
This group disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians during the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
He created the Boston Massacre engraving.
Who is Paul Revere?
This act gave the East India Company the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
These organizations spread news and coordinated resistance between colonies.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
homemade goods replaced imported ones as a form of protest.
What are homespun goods?
The Boston Tea Party took place in this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
They helped support boycotts by making homespun cloth.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
This set of laws closed Boston Harbor and revoked Massachusetts' charter.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This group organized boycotts and protests against British rule.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This term refers to laws viewed as too harsh or unfair by colonists.
What are 'intolerable' laws?
British soldiers were guarding this location when the Boston Massacre occurred.
What is the Customs House?
He was the king of Britain during this time.
Who is King George III?
This act allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonists' homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
This 1774 meeting united colonies in a response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This term means canceling a law.
What is repeal?
This engraving by Paul Revere influenced many colonists after the Boston Massacre.
What is 'The Bloody Massacre'?
He was a vocal leader of the Sons of Liberty and organized protests.
Who is Samuel Adams?