Important People
Refuse to buy a particular good or service.
What is boycott?
A protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Act in which a tax collector was kidnapped, stripped, had hot liquid poured upon them, then covered in feathers.
What was tar and feathering?
What is the Sugar Act?
Man who came up with the saying "No taxation without representation," protesting the colonies being taxed by Britain without representation the British parliament. And helped colonists form the Secret Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Something completely unbearable.
What is intolerable?
An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
What is the Boston Massacre/ the Incident on King Street?
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The act that Parliament repealed in 1766
What was the Stamp Act?
Created and published "Join or die" cartoon.
Who is Be Franklin?
To do away with.
What is repeal?
In 1773 a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
The plan George Washington purposed in which seven colonies met in New York.
What is the Albany Plan?
The act of taxing someone without their consent.
What is "taxation without representation?"
British General who made the mistake of lining up troops in columns and rows during the French and Indian War.
Who is General Edward Braddock.
A story giving only one side in an argument.
What is propaganda?
1774, laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
Colonial women who supported the boycott.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
The first purposed "act" from Parliament in regards attempting to raise money from the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Man who argued that the power of the Crown and Parliament should be limited in the colonies.
Who is James Otis?
Forcefully; to be forceful.
What is coercive?
These acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
Each committee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
In regular British courts, the accused in court were _ until proven _.
In regular British courts, the accused in court were innocent until proven guilty.