| A | B |
|---|
| boycott | a refusal to buy goods or services |
| Continental Congress | a meeting of representatives of the British colonies |
| export | a good sent from one country to another to be sold |
| Loyalist | a colonist who supported the British monarch & laws |
| monarch | a king or queen |
| Parliament | a part of the British government in which members make laws for the British people |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a country |
| import | a good brought into one country from another to be sold |
| legislature | the lawmaking branch of a colony, a state government, or the national government |
| Patriot | a colonist who was against British rule |
| militia | a volunteer army |
| blockade | to use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving the Harbor |
| Proclamation of 1763 | said the colonists couldn't settle on western land |
| Cause of Boston Massacre | colonists insulted British soldiers |
| Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader who formed the Committees of Correspondence and helped form the Sons of Liberty |
| Benjamin Franklin | American leader who was sent to Britain to ask Parliament for representation. |
| Boston Tea Party | this event occurred when British ship captains forced their way into Boston Harbor & wouldn't leave |
| Why Colonists had to Pay Taxes | to help pay for cost of the French & Indian War |
| colonial imports (examples) | sugar, molasses, paper, lead, paint, tea |
| colonial exports (examples) | fur, fish, wood tobacco, rice, wheat, corn |
| Stamp Act | taxed everything printed on paper from newspapers to playing cards |
| representation in Parliament | colonists didn't have this, so they became angry; "No taxation without representation!" |
| colonial self-government in legislatures: | 1. made laws 2. set up militias 3. had a governor controlled by a monarch |
| Intolerable Acts punished colonists by: | 1. no colonial ship could leave 2. colonists had to quarter British soldiers 3. Thomas Gage appointed new governor |
| Continental Congress decided: | 1. colonists would not trade w/ Britain 2. wouldn't obey laws that took away liberties 3. meet again May, 1775 |
| Why fighting broke out at Lexington & Concord | British attempted to destroy colonists' warehouse of munitions & gunpowder |
