Laws
First law to raise money in the colonies after the French & Indian War
What is the Sugar Act?
A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Parliament taxed the colonists to help pay for this war (1754-1763)
What is the French & Indian War?
A popular way to protest; before the American Revolution, colonists refused to buy British goods
What is boycott?
What is Jamestown?
1765 law that required colonists to pay for an official seal when buying paper items, such as legal documents, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
This organization supported the boycott of British goods & urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
On Dec. 16, 1773, colonists boarded three ships and threw the British East India Co.'s tea overboard to protest the Tea Act
What is the Boston Tea Party?
To cancel (end) a law
What is repeal?
The group that started Plymouth in 1620 as a New England colony separate from the Church of England
Who are the Pilgrims or Separatists?
After it repealed the Stamp Act, Parliament declared it had the power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What is the Declaratory Act?
Leader who returned from the First Continental Congress to tell his fellow Virginians, “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
Parliament closed Boston Harbor as punishment for this event
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The idea that it is unfair to tax someone without giving them a voice in government
What is taxation without representation?
Two European countries that fought for land and trade with Native Americans in the French & Indian War
What are France and Great Britain?
1767 laws passed by Parliament to put a tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea
What is the Townshend Acts?
Future second U.S. President who defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
Representatives from nine colonies met in New York in 1765 & declared that the Stamp Act violated the colonists' rights
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
1774 law that gave colonial governors the right to take unoccupied buildings to house (quarter) British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act or Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
The Thirteen Colonies
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia?
Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party
What is the Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Boston leader who helped to organize the Committees of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
In 1774, leaders from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia at Carpenter’s Hall & sent a Declaration of Rights to Britain's King George III
What is the First Continental Congress?
Groups got in touch with other towns and colonies to share ideas and information about British laws and ways to challenge them
What are Committees of Correspondence?
They signed an employment contract lasting 4 to 7 years with employers who paid their journey to the English colonies.
Who are indentured servants?