Colonial Resistance Organizations & Methods
Sons of Liberty
Secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests
Sugar Act
Tax on sugar and other goods; first act to raise revenue from colonies
King George III
British monarch during American Revolution who refused colonial demands
Colonization
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there
Bill of Rights
Protected individual liberties from government interference
Daughters of Liberty
Women who supported boycotts through making homemade goods
Stamp Act
Required colonists to pay tax on printed materials
George Washington
Commander of Continental Army; first U.S. President
Mercantilism
Economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction
Taxation without representation
British policy of imposing taxes on colonies without allowing them representation in Parliament
Boycott
Refusing to buy British goods as protest
Quartering Act
Required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
Thomas Jefferson
Primary author of Declaration of Independence; third U.S. President
Patriots
colonists who supported independence from Great Britain
Salutary Neglect
British policy of loose enforcement of colonial rules before 1763
Homespun Movement
Making clothes at home instead of buying British textiles
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
Benjamin Franklin
Diplomat, inventor, and negotiator of French alliance
Loyalists
Colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain
Boston Tea Party
Colonial protest where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Protest where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
Tea Act
Gave British East India Company monopoly on tea sales
Samuel Adams
Leading revolutionary who organized colonial resistanc
Continental Congress
Representative body formed by colonies to coordinate their resistance to British rule
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed after Boston Tea Party, including:
Closing Boston Harbor
Restricting Massachusetts government
Allowing troops to be quartered in homes
Moving trials to Britain