People of the Resistance
This former sailor, born into slavery, was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre
Who was Crispus Attucks?
Passed in 1766, this act simply affirmed Parliament’s right to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What was the Declaratory Act?
During this event on March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This is a refusal to buy or use certain goods as a form of political pressure.
What is a boycott?
Because the Stamp Act was repealed, Britain needed a new way to raise money for these two things.
What were troops and expenses?
This Pennsylvania lawyer wrote a famous pamphlet arguing that colonists could not be "secure in our property" if taxed without consent.
Who was John Dickinson?
This 1767 series of laws placed duties on imported goods like glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What were the Townshend Acts?
In 1773, a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded three ships and destroyed 342 chests of tea.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This term refers to biased or misleading information used to promote a political cause, often seen in colonial newspapers after 1770.
What is propaganda?
Because of the colonial boycott, these people pressured Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts in 1770.
Who were British merchants (or shippers/manufacturers)?
This group of women urged colonists to weave their own cloth and use American products instead of British goods
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This 1773 law gave the East India Company the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies.
What was the Tea Act?
This General arrived in Boston in 1768 with over 1,000 additional British soldiers to restore order.
Who was General Thomas Gage?
These were established so that towns and colonial leaders could communicate and coordinate their resistance.
What were committees of correspondence?
Parliament kept the tax on tea even after repealing other duties for this specific reason.
What was to show they still had the right to tax the colonists?
Though he supported the colonial cause, this lawyer defended British soldiers in court to prove that everyone was subject to the "rule of law"
Who was John Adams?
These were special search warrants that allowed British officers to enter homes and businesses to look for smuggled goods.
What were writs of assistance?
This was the specific number of tea chests thrown overboard by George Hewes and the Sons of Liberty.
What is 342?
In New York and Philadelphia, colonists used this method to prevent the Tea Act from being enforced.
What was blocking tea ships from landing?
This was the primary reason many colonists chose to drink tea smuggled from Holland instead of buying British tea.
What was to protest the tax on tea (or demonstrate displeasure)?
This leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty called British troops "foreign enemies" and later urged towns to form committees of correspondence.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This philosopher’s "natural rights" theory influenced colonists' belief that British laws were violating their liberty and property.
Who was John Locke?
This was the legal outcome for the British soldiers who fired into the crowd during the Boston Massacre.
What is acquittal (or they were found not guilty/acted in self-defense)?
These are taxes placed specifically on imported goods, such as the ones found in the Townshend Acts.
What are duties?
British officials refused to compromise after the Tea Party, which pushed many Americans into this.
What is open rebellion?