British officials used these special forms that tax collectors used to search for smuggled goods to enforce the Acts.
What are Writs of Assistance?
100
At the same time, tax collectors in MA seized this ship on suspicion of smuggling, angering the owner, John Hancock.
What is the Liberty?
100
This means to gain control of.
What is to monopolize?
100
In 1764, Parliament passed these sets of laws that set duties, or taxes, on molasses and sugar imported by colonists, becoming the 1st act to specifically to raise money, rather that to regulate trade.
What is the Sugar Tax?
200
To officially end something.
What is repeal?
200
This is information giving only one side in an argument designed to influence public opinion.
What is propaganda?
200
This company suggested that they be allowed to sell tea to the colonies at a reduced price, still turn a profit, and the cheaper tea might lead to less smuggling and more tax revenue.
What is the British East India Co.?
200
Colonial Legislatures also protested the Townshend Acts…in February 1768, he wrote a letter stating that the acts violated the legal rights of colonists and several legislatures supported him.
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
To help pay for the standing army used to protect colonist against Indian attacks in North America, this British Prime Minister asked Parliament to tax the colonists.
Who is British Prime Minister George Greenville?
300
These are groups that contacted other towns and colonies to share information on new British laws and ways to challenge them, such as a boycott.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
300
This began on December 16, when colonists disguised as American Indians snuck on board and began tossing tea chests into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
British soldiers arrived in Boston in October of this year.
What is 1768?
300
The female version of the Sons of Liberty.
What are Daughters of Liberty?
300
At a Boston town meeting in May, 1764, leader Samuel Adams believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their consent…it was called _____________.
What is “No Taxation Without Representation”?
400
These were secret societies that sometimes used violence to frighten tax-collectors.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
400
In June 1767, Parliament passed these sets of laws which placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
This is the number of tea chest that went into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What is 342?
400
He broke up the legislature in 1768 and asked England for troops to restore order.
Who is Governor Francis Benard?
400
This act was Parliaments 1st effort to raise money by taxing them directly.
What is The Stamp Act?
500
A lawyer from Boston, he was one of the first colonists to protest taxation by Parliament.
Who is James Otis?
500
Parliament agreed and passed this set of laws in 1773.
What is Tea Act?
500
One of the 5 resolutions of the Intolerable Acts.
What are
1. Boston Harbor was closed until Boston paid for the lost tea.
2. The Massachusetts charter was cancelled.
3. Royal officials accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial.
4. The Quartering Act forced colonists to house and supply British soldiers.
5. General Thomas Gage became the new governor of Massachusetts.
500
This is the date that tension exploded into the Boston Massacre when one soldier standing guard got into a fight with a colonist.
What is March 5, 1770?
500
In May of 1765, this patriot presented a series of resolutions to the House of Burgesses in Virginia that stated that the Stamp Act violated the rights of the colonists as British citizens, showed taxation without representation, and denied the accused trial by jury…Henry was able to convince the assembly to support some of his ideas.