Vocabulary 1
The killing of many people.
What is a massacre?
Money that people pay to their government in return for services.
What is a tax?
Britain needed to collect taxes in order to pay for this event?
What is the French and Indian War?
This man made a powerful speech against the Stamp Act.
Who was Patrick Henry?
During this even, Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Natives, boarded a ship, and dumped many crates into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A group of people refuses to buy, sell, or use certain goods.
What are boycotts?
To import goods illegally.
What is smuggling?
This made colonists upset that they were being taxed by England.
What is because they weren't represented in Parliament?
In order to share information among the colonies, this group was formed.
What was the Committees of Correspondence?
This person defended the British soldiers who were charged with the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
An event at which people complain about an issue.
What is a protest?
Freedom from being controlled by another government.
What is liberty?
What is smuggling?
A protest that turned deadly, and killed 5 people in Boston, was called this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Instead of responding to the First Continental Congress' letter, King George III did this instead.
What is send more colonists to Boston and declare the colonists have begun a rebellion?
What is correspondence?
To cancel a law?
What is to repeal?
The boycotts were successful for this reason.
What is Britain lost money and they hurt British trade?
This reason was why Britain decided to keep the tax on tea.
What is that Parliament wanted to show it still had the power to tax the colonists?
The First Continental Congress sent a letter to this person and Parliament, to stop taxing colonists without their agreement, and to repeal the Intolerable Acts?
Who is King George III?
To give soldiers food and shelter.
What is to quarter?
What is a delegate?
This group helped the boycott by making cloth.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
Only colonial governments could tax the colonists was decided at this gathering.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
These laws stopped trade between Britain and the colonies, ended most town meetings, and gave Britain more control over the colony's government. Bostonian also had to quarter new soldiers that arrived in Boston.
What were the Intolerable Acts(Coercive Acts)?