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Vocab
100
Allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonies
What is the Tea Act?
100
Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Britain's lawmaking group
What is Parliament?
100
This group of people boycotted British goods.
Who are Colonists?
100
Means to cancel
What is Repeal?
200
Placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The killing of 5 people by British soldiers
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
A tax on imported goods
What is tariff?
200
This person organized the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
A volunteer army
What is Militia?
300
Placed a tax on imported goods
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
Meeting of colonial leaders to discuss the Intolerable Acts
What is the Continental Congress?
300
Colonists who were against British rule
Who are Patriots?
300
A Virginia lawyer who was one of the first to speak out against the Stamp Act.
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
A tax placed on imported goods.
What is Tariff?
400
Placed tax on printed materials in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
400
A form of protest in which the colonists refused to buy British goods.
What is Boycott?
400
Colonists who remained true to the king
Who are Loyalists?
400
The British soldiers in the Boston Massacre were defended by who?
Who is John Adams?
400
Colonists who were against British rule.
Who are Patriots?
500
This group of people created the Intolerable Acts.
Who is Parliament?
500
to help the boycott, this group formed and began weaving cloth that could be used instead of British wool.
What is Daughters of Liberty?
500
Soldiers ready to fight
Who are Minutemen?
500
A group of people who wrote to each other about local events
Who is the Committee of Correspondence?
500
Colonists who remained true to the King.
Who are Loyalists?