Acts
A tax on sugar and molasses.
Sugar Act
Who did Sally Franklin send a letter to detailing American colonial life?
Benjamin Franklin
A secret society aimed at opposing British rule.
Sons of Liberty
To buy as an investment.
Speculate
According to Thomas Jefferson what unalienable rights did all men have?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Legal and commercial documents must carry a stamp showing that a tax had been paid.
Stamp Act
Was a member of the House of Burgesses.
Patrick Henry
Urged American colonialists to weave their own clothes and use American goods.
Daughters of Liberty
Refusal to buy.
Boycott
Writs of Assistance gave British soldiers the right to do this.
Allow British soldiers to search private colonist homes in search of smuggled goods.
The taxation of imports from Britain to the colonies.
Townshend Act
His philosophy is the bases of the declaration of Independence.
John Locke
A group created to allow American colonialists to communicate with neighbors and colonial leaders.
Committees of Correspondence
Taxes placed on imported goods.
Duties
The First Continental Congress gathered over what?
They gathered over what to do about the intolerable acts.
This Act closed the port of Boston until the colonist paid for spilt tea.
Intolerable Acts
Was the leader of Boston Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
The Sons of Liberty organized this rebellion against British taxation.
Boston Tea Party
Another name for a search warrant.
Writs of assistance
Even though it lowered the price of tea, colonist still disagreed with the act because it was a tax.
A fear that this Act would restrict the movements and freedoms of American colonialists.
Quartering Act
Was a lawyer who represented British soldier of the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
What tax caused the Sons of Liberty to rebel at the Boston Tea Party?
Tea Act
A single ruler of country.
Monarch
The colonialist response to the Townshend Act.
They formed protests to boycott British goods.