Acts & Taxes
This announcement angered colonial settlers hoping to move west.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Passed in 1767, these laws placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies.
What were the Townshend Acts?
American colonists who wanted to break away from British rule and form an independent nation.
What are Patriots?
This 1765 law required colonists to buy special stamps for newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is Stamp Act?
In December 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was the King of Great Britain who refused to listen to colonial complaints and insisted on taxing the colonies.
Who is King George III
Colonists who remained loyal to King George III and wished to stay part of Great Britain.
What are Loyalists (or Tories)?
This act forced colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies to British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
A violent clash on March 5, 1770, between a crowd of colonists and British soldiers that left five colonists dead.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The man that drew the picture to make the Boston Massacre look worse that it was.
Who is Paul Revere?
Secret colonial groups created to organize protests, enforce boycotts, and oppose British rule.
Who are the Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty?
Passed in 1767, these laws placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies.
What were the Townshend Acts?
In September 1774, leaders from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to coordinate their response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The government in Great Britain made up of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
What is Parliament?
The refusal to purchase certain British goods
What is a boycott?
This allowed the East India Company to enjoy a monopoly on tea in the colonies making it easier to sell tea.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
Groups formed to spread information from town to town
What are Committees of Correspondance?
A passionate Boston leader who helped organize the Sons of Liberty, led protests against British taxes, and started the first Committees of Correspondence.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Information that is used to influence the opinion of others
What is Propaganda?