Vocabulary
nine colonies sent these people to represent them to a special gathering in New York
What are delegates?
put a tax on all legal documents such as marriage certificates, etc.
What is the Stamp Act?
closed Boston Harbor
What are the Intolerable Acts?
the meeting of delegates from 12 colonies
What was the First Continental Congress?
a law
What is an act?
Another word for undoing a law
What is to repeal?
started as colonists throwing snowballs at British soldiers
What is the Boston Massacre?
Were made to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Besides Britain winning, the other outcome of the French and Indian War
What is Britain went deeply into debt?
to bring into a country, especially for sale
What is to import?
Many colonists began to object to the Quartering Act
What is protest?
protected the colonists by moving Native Americans west of the Appalachians
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
part of the British government that passed acts
What is Parliament
Native Americans were given the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
the murder of several people who cannot defend themselves
What is a massacre?
to refuse to buy
What is boycott?
The Battle for the Ohio River Valley
What was the French and Indian War?
Colonists protested putting this on documents until it was repealed
What is the Stamp Act?
colonists dressed as Indians and threw tea in Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
the lawmaking department of the British government, similar to our Congress
What is Parliament?
Great Britain made a public announcement that Native Americans could have the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is a proclamation?
Colonists had to provide British soldiers with food, transportation, and housing
What is the Quartering Act?
Taxed several goods that the colonies brought in for sale
What are the Townshend Acts?
First colonist killed at the Boston Massacre
Who was Crispus Attucks?
being required to pay taxes by a government without having a representation in that government
What is taxation without representation?