Tax Acts
This act required a special government marking on all printed materials sold in the colonies
Stamp act
Term for money British brought in from taxation
Revenue
This is a term for a volunteer/citizen soldier called up in time of emergency
militia
This was the term for the murder of 5 protesting colonists in Boston...by British soldiers
Boston Massacre
The British placed a tax on molasses, which limited the colonists ability to make cheap rum
Sugar Act
This is an act of refusing to purchase, or be a patron of something that you are protesting
Boycott
Protest group led by Samuel Adams that found ways to disrupt the British in the colonies
Sons of Liberty
During the Boston Tea Party, the colonists dressed up in this disguise
Native Americans
This was the King of England during the Revolutionary War
George III
Another term for American Colonial Militia
Minuteman
This act required colonists to house British soldiers in their own homes
Quartering Act
This was a negative slang used about British soldiers in the colonies
Lobsterbacks
This term means the act of removing a previous law
Repeal
Ha was an African-American colonist, and died during the Boston Massacre after being shot by British troops
Crispus Attucks
The colonial militia at Lexington/Concord used this type of warfare to harass and kill the British troops as they marched back to Boston
Guerilla Warfare
This act restricted colonists to certain purchases only by the British East India Company
Tea Act
These were laws passed by the British authorizing taxation in the colonies
Resolutions
Colonists dressed up figurines made to look like British tax collectors or King George III and set them on fire...these were known as___________
effigies
This famous Patriots ship was seized by the British Navy. It started the "Liberty Affair."
John Hancock
The Intolerable Acts were also known as the___________Acts
Coercive
This act required colonists to pay taxes which paid the salaries of British officials who enforced the laws in the colonies
Intolerable Acts
This is biased or exaggerated news used to influence people (fake news)
propaganda
These laws allowed the British to search, board, or occupy a house or ship that they believed may have contraband inside.
Writs of assistance
This attorney (and later US President) DEFENDED the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre. He believed our desire for liberty granted everyone a fair trial.
John Adams
This was the communication link between the colonies using written messages between cities to encourage a revolution against the British
Committees of Correspondence