Taxes and Acts
This 1765 law required colonists to buy royal stamps for newspapers, legal papers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group formed secret societies to protest British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This was the first ship to arrive in Boston with tea in 1773.
What is the Dartmouth?
This war left Britain in debt and led to new taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
Outrage over the Boston Tea Party spread here, where many wanted Adams and Hancock arrested.
What is England?
These 1767 acts added new taxes on glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
These two men were blamed for the Boston Tea Party and accused of treason.
Who are Samuel Adams and John Hancock?
This number of tea chests was dumped into Boston Harbor.
What is 342?
Colonists often used this type of protest, refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
England wanted Adams and Hancock arrested for this crime.
What is treason?
Parliament passed this act in 1766, saying they had the right to tax the colonies anytime.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This type of group helped spread information from colony to colony.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
These warriors were imitated by colonists when they boarded the tea ships.
Who are Mohawk Indians?
Colonists were angry because they were being taxed without this.
What is representation in Parliament?
After the harbor was closed, other colonies sent these to Boston.
What are supplies?
This 1773 act gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea.
What is the Tea Act?
This future famous rider carried messages to other colonies after the Coercive Acts.
Who is Paul Revere?
The Boston Tea Party happened the night before this deadline.
What is the tea tax deadline?
Smugglers brought in molasses from these two countries to avoid paying taxes.
What are France and Spain?
Towns began forming these citizen military forces after the Coercive Acts.
What are militias?
These laws, passed in 1774, punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
These meetings, banned by the Coercive Acts, were an important way colonists organized protests.
What are town meetings?
The Boston Tea Party destroyed the tea but left these undamaged.
What are the ships?
Merchants who promised not to import British goods were taking part in this.
What is a boycott agreement?
The Boston Tea Party helped do this, bringing colonies together against Britain.
What is unite them?