Taxes
Extra money placed on items that is paid to the government
Tax
The law (line) that the British government placed on the colonies after the French and Indian War to stop colonists from moving west.
Proclamation Line of 1763
A general in the French and Indian war, who eventually led the colonial continental army during the Revolutionary War, and then became the first president of the U.S.
George Washington
A war between England and its colonies, and France and its Native American allies over land in the Ohio River Valley.
French and Indian War
When two or more groups or countries agree to work together in war or trade.
Alliance/Ally
A tax placed on tea that also gave one English company control of all tea coming into the colonies.
Tea Act
A court case in the colonies that showed that colonists did not have the right to free speech while under the control of England.
Zenger Trial
A colonist who thought the colonies should stay under the control of England and were loyal to England.
Loyalist
A protest against the Tea Act. Colonists dumped over 91,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
To be free without being controlled by others.
Independence
British tax on colonial sugar and molasses. Colonists would then smuggle the sugar to avoid paying the tax.
Sugar Act
A time where England was not controlling the economy of the colonies. The colonies did well with money as a result of this, and did not want to return to mercantilism.
Salutary Neglect
A colonist who thought the colonies should become their own country.
Patriot
A conflict between the unarmed Colonists and British Soldiers in Boston. This caused a lot of anger in the colonies over the British Soldiers being there.
Boston Massacre
A colonist who could be armed and ready to fight the British in a minute’s notice.
Minute Men
A tax placed on all paper goods coming into the colonies.
Stamp Act
A law passed by England that forced Colonists to allow British Soldiers to live in their homes.
Quartering Act
A secret society of patriots that organized to oppose British policies.
Sons of Liberty
The document was created by the Continental Congress to tell the King of England that the Colonies were officially separating from England.
The Declaration of Independence
Refusing to buy goods from a specific company or country as a form of protest.
Boycott
Taxes put on the colonies without them agreeing to it.
Townshend Acts
Laws designed to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts
A general in the French and Indian war, who eventually led the colonial continental army during the Revolutionary War, and then became the first president of the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued that the colonies should be a separate country from England.
Common Sense
An army formed from volunteers who are not full time soldiers.
Militia