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This act placed a tax on all printed materials.
Stamp Act of 1765
The War fought between France and Great Britain.
French and Indian War
A group of women who boycotted buying British goods by weaving their own cloth and making their own tea.
Daughters of Liberty
The territory Great Britain and France was fighting over.
Ohio River Valley
Defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
This act placed a tax on all goods that were imported like glass, lead, paper, and tea.
Townshend Act of 1767
A law that was passed stating that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Settlement far from the country that rules it.
Colony
A friend who will help in a fight.
Ally
A member of the Sons of Liberty and engraved the Boston Massacre.
Paul Revere
This act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
Quartering Act
A crowd gathered in Boston and began taunting British soldiers. Colonists began throwing snowballs and rocks. A soldier was knocked down and shot into the crowd and killed 5 colonists.
Boston Massacre 1770
Groups of colonists formed in the 1770's to spread news quickly about protests against the British.
Committees of Correspondence
Shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
Blockade
Ruler of England during the Revolutionary War.
King George III
The act where colonists could only buy tea from the East India Tea Company and had to pay a tax on tea that was imported.
Tea Act of 1773
The Sons of Liberty dressed like Indians and boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard, into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party 1773
Britains law making assembly.
Parliament
Refusal to buy goods.
Boycott
Organized the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
This act closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea.
Intolerable Acts of 1774
Groups called the Sons of Liberty led protests against the Stamp Act in the colonies. Protesters burned effigies of tax collectors, boycotted British goods, and tarred and feathered tax collectors.
Protesting the Stamp Act
Tax on imported goods.
Tariff
Colonist
A group that led protests against the taxes.
Sons of Liberty