The Word For That
Civilian volunteers prepared to protect their community.
militia
Required a stamp on all printed material.
Stamp Act
To refuse to buy a product as a form of protest.
Boycott
Northernmost colony
Massachusetts
Partnership
Alliance
Blanket search warrants that allowed British officials to search anyone's property at any time for smuggled goods.
Writs of Assistance
These figures were made to look like tax collectors and other British leaders.
Effigies
Mountain range west of the colonies.
Appalachian Mountains
Not taking sides.
Neutral
Prohibited colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This was an organization created by Sam Adams with the sole purpose of protesting British laws.
Sons of Liberty
A region rich in resources, especially the fur trade, named after a large river that connects to the Mississippi River.
Ohio River Valley
Income
Revenue
Series of taxes on imported goods such as paper, lead, tea and paint.
Townshend Acts
Protests against the Stamp Act were so successful that Parliament ________ the law.
Repealed
The first colony successfully established in the American colonies.
Jamestown
Someone who supported British rule.
Loyalist
Statement by the Parliament that only they had the power to make laws and taxes for the American Colonies.
Declaratory Act
The colonial protest to the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Southernmost colony
Georgia