Acts
This act meant colonists had to provide housing and supplies for British troops
Quartering Act
This governing body felt it was only fair to tax American colonies to pay the debt from the French and Indian War
Parliament
Because of this, Britain began taxing the American Colonies
debt caused by the French and Indian War
A unique system of local government set up that gave an equal voice to qualifying citizens
Town meeting
This event consisted of colonial patriots tossing chests of tea in the Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
This act meant colonists had to pay taxes on paper products with stamped proof of payment
Stamp Act
After a fight in Boston this side referred to the event as The Boston Massacre
colonists/patriots
This form of protest means people stop buying a particular product or type of goods.
Boycotting
The head of British Monarch during the French and Indian War
King George III
The battle with the famous "shot heard around the world"
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
After about 3 years of taxing colonists on glass, paper, and tea this act was mostly repealed
Townshend Acts
This group of colonists were loyal to the British government
loyalists
Money collected by the government meant to pay for shared services (military/land maintenance)
taxes
This assembly met in Philadelphia to form a united colonial response to the British "Intolerable" Acts
The First Continental Congress
The man famous for alerting minute men in the "midnight ride" before the first revolutionary battle
Paul Revere
This act taxed and controlled molasses in the colonies.
Sugar Act
This group referred to a 1770 fight in Boston as The Incident on King Street
British
A crime committed when a person or business sneaks goods or materials for sale without paying taxes.
smuggling
A person chosen by a group or locality with a job to speak for the interests of that group.
Representative
This man believed in fair trial, and so was a lawyer for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
A set of four acts passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party; these acts were called Coercive by the British but ______ by the colonists.
Intolerable Acts
This group of colonists had the rally cry "No taxation without representation!" and later went on to form the First Continental Congress
patriots
When one company (business) or country has complete control of a product or service.
Monopoly
A legally recognized member of a nation or state with rights and responsibilities
citizen
This act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade before the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act