Vocabulary
Organized refusal to buy British goods
What is a boycott?
Required colonists to pay for stamps on legal documents
What is the Stamp Act?
Protest in which 342 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
African American sailor, first casualty of the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
Slogan colonists used to oppose unfair taxes.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre is an example of this.
What is propaganda?
Law that prevented colonists from moving west of the Appalachians
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Event on March 5, 1770 where 5 colonists were killed
What is the Boston Massacre?
He defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial.
Who was John Adams?
Gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales.
What is the Tea Act?
Secret group that organized protests against British laws
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonists’ homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists’ response to the Tea Act
What is dumping the tea in Boston Harbor?
Massachusetts patriot who organized resistance, including the Sons of Liberty.
Who was Samuel Adams?
British law that closed Boston Harbor after the Tea Party
What is the Boston Port Act?
Colonists who spun cloth and brewed “liberty tea.”
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
Lowered the tax on molasses but cracked down on smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
First major colonial meeting to organize resistance to Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
He said, “I am not a Virginian, but an American.”
Who was Patrick Henry?
What the colonists called the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
People who could be ready to fight on a moment’s notice.
Who were the Minutemen?
Taxed imports like glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Document declaring the Intolerable Acts illegal and urging militias to form.
What were the Suffolk Resolves?
King of England during this period.
Who was King George III?
Colony that did NOT send delegates to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?