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Acts

100

Tax on imported goods.

Townshend Acts

200

This act meant to protect a company from financial ruin.

Tea Act

300

This act angered colonists because it was done without their consent.

Stamp Act

400

Lowered taxes on imported molasses.

Sugar Act

500

Allowed officers to seize goods without going to court.

Sugar Act

Acts II

100

This act bypassed colonial merchants

Tea Act

200

Another name for the Intolerable Acts.

Coercive Acts.

300

An act whose purpose was to isolate the city of Boston.

Coercive Acts

400

This act gave land west of the Appalachian mountains to Quebec.

Quebec Act.

500

Act passed that stated that Parliament possesses the right to tax the colonists when and however they choose.

Declaratory Act

Groups/People

100

This political body assembled to demand repeal of the Acts by the King.

First Continental Congress

200

Remained loyal to the crown

Loyalists

300

Said, "The regulars are out!"

Paul Revere

400

First person killed in the Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

500

This group created the Continental Army led by George Washington.

Second Continental Congress

Groups/People II

100

Colonists that supported the war for independence.

Patriots

200

This groups urged people to wear homemade fabrics and produce goods instead of buying from Britain.

Daughters of Liberty

300

Wrote "Common Sense."

Thomas Paine

400

This group began to govern colonies

Second Continental Congress

500

An organization developed to air grievances against Great Britain.

Committee of Correspondence

This and That

100

Members of Sons of Liberty threw out 342 chest of tea.

Boston Tea Party

200

Information made to influence public opinion.

Propaganda

300

Refusal to buy goods in protest.

Boycott

400

Ran the first post office established by the Second Continental Congress.

Benjamin Franklin

500

Request sent to the King as a last chance to avoid war.

Olive Branch Petition