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Tax Acts
Mixed Bag 1
Pre Rev Vocab
British History
Mixed Bag 2
100
This act required government markings on all printed material
What is the Stamp Act
100
These laws allowed the British to board and search colonial ships or homes suspected of smuggling
What are the Writs of Assistance
100
This act of a populace who refuse to purchase goods, or do business with in civil disobediance
What is a boycott
100
Colonists burned up dressed up figures made to look like British tax collectors. They were known as:
What are effigies
100
This event was the major cause of the development of bad relations between American colonists and Great Britain
What is the French and Indian War
200
This Act required citizens to house soldiers in their own homes
What is the Quartering Act
200
The term for a volunteer, or citizen soldier called up in an emergency
What is a militia
200
Biased information, or exaggerated news reports used to influence people
What is propaganda
200
During the Boston Tea Party colonists dressed up in this disguise
What are Native American costumes
200
This was a slang word for British soldiers in the American colonies
What are "lobsterbacks"
300
This act made it more expensive for colonists to make rum
What is Sugar Act
300
The communication link between colonies using written messages between cities encouraging revolution against the British.
What are Committees of Correspondence
300
The term used for the murder of 5 protesters in Boston
What is the Boston Massacre
300
This famous patriots (smugglers) ship was seized by the British and started the "Liberty Affair"
Who was John Hancock
300
This act restricted the colonist to purchase only from the British East India Company
What is the Tea Act
400
This act collected taxes for the colonists to pay the salaries of British officials enforcing laws in the colonies
What is Townshend Act
400
The term for removal of a previous law
What is a repeal
400
This is the term for the money the British government generated through taxation
What is revenue
400
This colonial attorney defended the British troops accused in the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams
400
This was a protest group led by Samuel Adams that found ways to disrupt the British in Boston
What are the Sons of Liberty
500
These acts were passed in order for the British to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What is the Intolerable Acts
500
He was an African American/Native American mixed race colonist and first casualty of the coming American Revolution
Who was Crispus Attucks
500
These were the laws passed by the British authorizing taxation in the colonies
What are resolutions
500
This was the King of England prior to and during the American Revolution
What is King George III
500
The intolerable acts were also known in history as the:
What is the Coercive Acts