Vocabulary
What document allows British customs officers to search a colonist's home.
Writ of Assistance
He had orders to take away the weapons of the Massachusetts militia.
Thomas Gage (British Officer)
This act was put in place to try to stop smuggling in the colonies?
Sugar Act
How did colonial leaders use the event and the print of the "Boston Massacre" ?
as propaganda, to get colonist in favor of war.
Which act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?
Tea Act
What type of colonists sided with Britain?
a Loyalists
Wrote a pamphlet that argued that America should not be ruled by Britain "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
The Act that taxed almost all printed material in the colonies
Stamp Act
What event happened when three East India Co. ships arrived in Boston harbor?
The Boston Tea Party (Sons of Liberty boarded the ships and destroyed the tea)
Did the Coercive Acts isolate Boston from the rest of the colonies?
NO, the other colonies supported Boston during this time.
What type of colonists wanted to fight for American Independence?
a Patriot
Viewed the colonies as a source of Funds
King George the III and Parliament
Which act allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses
Sugar Act
Why were colonist upset after the Tea Act?
They wanted to decide what tea and who to buy from.
How many died during the Boston Massacre?
5 colonist, 1 is the first African American to die in the "revolution"
means money (to be raised)
revenue
1st African American to be killed in the Boston Massacre (American Revolution)
Crispus Attucks
Which Act taxed goods that were imported from England like glass, lead for roofing, paint and tea.
Townshend Acts
How did Parliament react to the news of the Boston Tea Party?
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts
What did colonist rename the Coercive Acts that banned town meeting in New England colonies
the Intolerable Acts
to refuse to buy something
boycott
Warned the Militia at Lexington and Concord that the British were coming !
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Which act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists
Declaratory Act
At the time of the Boston Tea Party , most colonists still considered themselves as British citizens
True
What prohibited colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains that was a result of the Treaty of Paris.
The Proclamation of 1763