Colonial Resistance Organizations & Methods
It is a secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests
What is Sons of Liberty?
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there
What is Colonization?
British monarch during American Revolution who refused colonial demands
What is King George III?
Gave British East India Company monopoly on tea sales
Tea Act
Colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain
What is Loyalists?
What is a Boycott?
To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something, as a way of protesting
Economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction
What is Mercantilism?
Commander of Continental Army; first U.S. President
What is George Washington?
Tax on sugar and other goods; first act to raise revenue from colonies
What is a Sugar Act?
Actions and policies that benefit the entire community rather than just individuals
What is Common Good?
Which group had women who supported boycotts through making homemade goods.
What is Daughters of Liberty?
British policy of imposing taxes on colonies without allowing them representation in Parliament
What is Taxation without representation?
Primary author of Declaration of Independence; third U.S. President
What is Thomas Jefferson?
Required colonists to pay tax on printed materials
What is a Stamp Act?
Closing Boston Harbor
Restricting Massachusetts government
Allowing troops to be quartered in homes
Moving trials to Britain
Intolerable Acts
What was the Homespun Movement?
What is Making clothes at home instead of buying British textiles?
Colonists who supported independence from Great Britain
What is a Patriot?
Diplomat, inventor, and negotiator of French alliance
What is Benjamin Franklin?
Required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
What is Quartering Act?
First military engagements of Revolutionary War
What is Lexington and Concord?
Protest where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party?
Representative body formed by colonies to coordinate their resistance to British rule
What is a Continental Congress?
Leading revolutionary who organized colonial resistance
What is Samuel Adams?
Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
What is Townshend Acts?
Conflict between Britain and France over North American territory
French and Indian War