Vocabulary
How do you say, "Yes" on board a ship in 1774?
"Aye."
This dessert was a mixture of flour, water, and molasses.
Duff
Name 3 products that were taxed by the British.
Sugar, paper, paint, tea, stamps, fabric...
What was the other name for the Boston Massacre?
The Incident on King Street.
He was the king of England during the Destruction of the Tea.
King George III.
This word means the restroom...
The "head."
This is a sailor's nickname for rum.
Nelson's Blood
How did the colonists boycott British products?
The Daughters of Liberty made their own tea and sewed their own clothes.
What was the other name for the Boston Tea Party?
The Incident of the Tea
This means someone who is loyal to England.
Loyalist.
How do you tell people to stop?
"Avast!"
The name of the British government.
Parliament
How much was the sales tax on tea?
Three cents.
This British trading company had a monopoly on tea.
The British East India Company.
These colonists wanted to break free from England.
Patriots
This word means to gather.
"Muster."
The sailors' name for the kitchen.
The galley
How did the British attempt to sell their taxed tea to the colonists?
They sold it at a lower price than the colonists' tea.
This women's group helped boycott British products by brewing their own tea and sewing clothes.
The Daughters of Liberty
People who were poor and worked for awhile without pay, usually in exchange for transportation, were...
indentured servants.
If you do something carefully and well, you do it...
"Handsomely."
This cylindrical barrel was found in larger ships. Sailors used it when working with sails, anchors, and yards.
The capstan.
Give 3 details about how the Sons of Liberty got revenge for the tea taxes.
(1) They dressed as Native Americans
(2) They broke into 3 groups: one to keep watch, and two to invade the ship.
(3) They dumped crates of tea into the harbor.
This act kept blocked merchant ship from entering the Boston harbor and did not allow colonists to leave until the tea was paid for.
The Boston Port Act.
These people had privately armed ships which had government permission to attack enemy ships during wartime.
Privateers.