Acts
This act placed a tax on all printed materials.
Stamp Act of 1765
Defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
The War fought between France and Great Britain.
French and Indian War
The territory Great Britain and France was fighting over.
Ohio River Valley
A group of women who boycotted buying British goods by weaving their own cloth and making their own tea.
Daughters of Liberty
This act placed a tax on all goods that were imported like glass, lead, paper, and tea.
Townshend Act of 1767
A member of the Sons of Liberty and engraved the Boston Massacre.
Paul Revere
A law that was passed stating that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
A friend who will help in a fight.
Ally
Settlement far from the country that rules it.
Colony
This act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
Quartering Act
Ruler of England during the Revolutionary War.
King George III
A crowd gathered in Boston and began taunting British soldiers. Colonists began throwing snowballs and rocks. A soldier was knocked down and shot into the crowd and killed 5 colonists.
Boston Massacre 1770
Shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
Blockade
Groups of colonists formed in the 1770's to spread news quickly about protests against the British.
Committees of Correspondence
The act where colonists could only buy tea from the East India Tea Company and had to pay a tax on tea that was imported.
Tea Act of 1773
Organized the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
The Sons of Liberty dressed like Indians and boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard, into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party 1773
Refusal to buy goods.
Boycott
Britains law making assembly.
Parliament
This act closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea.
Intolerable Acts of 1774
A group that led protests against the taxes.
Sons of Liberty
Groups called the Sons of Liberty led protests against the Stamp Act in the colonies. Protesters burned effigies of tax collectors, boycotted British goods, and tarred and feathered tax collectors.
Protesting the Stamp Act
Colonist
Tax on imported goods.
Tariff