No Taxation Without Representation
Placed a tax on paper goods
Stamp Act
founded the Sons of Liberty
Sam Adams
incoming money
revenue
someone who wanted independence from Britain
Patriot
located in this colony
Massachusetts
banned all trade with other nations
Navigation Acts
The unsung hero of the American Revolution who gave Thomas Jefferson ideas for the Declaration of Independence and would later become president.
John Adams
rag figure
effigy
believed that unfair taxes was not reason enough to declare independence
loyalist
The defiant acts that became known as the Boston Tea Party were performed by this group.
Sons of Liberty
group that got the Stamp Act repealed
Stamp Act Congress
Thomas Jefferson
to cancel
repeal
law that said the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
He made the engraving of the Boston Massacre by telling the event from the view of the colonists and not telling the whole story
Paul Revere
Law that made British tea cheaper
Tea Act
Member of the House of Burgesses who spoke out against British rule with the famous line "Give me liberty or give me death"
Patrick Henry
citizen army
militia
Massachusetts militia
Minutemen
The number of chests of tea that were dumped into Boston Harbor.
342
Took away the colonists right to a trial by jury
Sugar Act
persuaded France to help the Americans to defeat Britain
Ben Franklin
information designed to influence opinion
propaganda
Wrote Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The name of the British law that punished the colonists for throwing tea into Boston Harbor. They nicknamed it the Intolerable Acts.
Coercive Acts