Taxes
Colonist
Britain
Protest/Boycott
Vocabulary
100
A tax on printed materials, such as, legal documents, newspapers, and printed cards.
What is Stamp Act?
100
First to opposed Stamp Act. He formed the Stamp Act Congress.
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
A group of law makers who worked with King George III to tax the colonies.
Who is Parliament?
100
While protesting the Stamp Act the colonist made this to frightened the Stamp Agents.
What is a Stamp Agent puppet?
100
To cancel
What is repeal?
200
A tax on molasses and sugar.
What is Sugar Act?
200
One of the famous rants by the protesters of the Sugar Act, which meant that the British government could not tax them without having a representative in Britain.
What is "No taxation without Representation"?
200
A British General sent to the colonies to control them.
Who is Thomas Gage?
200
The colonists protested buying molasses from Britain so they got their molasses by doing this.
What is smuggling molasses?
200
To refuse to buy or use goods
What is boycott?
300
A tax on paper, glass, tea, wool, paint, & lead.
What is Townsend Act?
300
A person who opposed the King of Britain.
Who is a patriot?
300
An silversmith who became an express rider.
Who is Paul Revere?
300
The colonist dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party?
300
a tax
What is tariff?
400
A tax on tea and were told they could only buy tea from the East India Company.
What is Tea Act?
400
A group of men who organized to protest against Britain who were led by Samuel Adams and James Otis.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
400
A event where five colonists were killed by British soldiers.
What is Boston Massacre?
400
A tea created by the Daughters of Liberty to protest not buying Britain's tea.
What is Liberty Tea?
400
to owe money
What is debt?
500
This was a set of policies (quartering, martial law, and they closed the harbor) used to control the colonists.
What is Intolerable Act?
500
A group of women organized to protest the British government; who spun their own wool and made Liberty Tea from berries.
Who are the Daughters?
500
An escaped slave who was killed during the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
500
The colonists created this organization to respond to Britain's Intolerable Act.
What is First Continental Congress?
500
A person who is loyal to the Britain.
What is a loyalist?