| A | B |
|---|
| Coercive Act | “Intolerable Acts”…a series of laws to punish colonists for dumping tea: closed Boston Ports until destroyed tea paid for-suspended town meetings-appointed military governor; permitted trials to be in England |
| Townshend Act | taxes on goods from Britain: tea |
| Stamp Act | a tax on printed things (happened in New York). Was eventually repealed |
| First Continental Congress | delegates from colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss a peaceful end to British conflict. No one came from Georgia |
| Proclamation of 1763 | colonists could not settled wet of the Appalachian Mountains…colonists ignored it and settled there anyway |
| Committees of Correspondence | a group of letter writers that spread news about British threats to colonist’s rights |
| Tea Act | gave the British East India Company complete control to import and sell tea to colonies |
| Pontiac’s Rebellion | Native Americans were fearful and frustrated by the way they ere being treated by the British….they attacked British forts. |
| Sugar Act | tax on molasses….used for making rum |
| Writs of Assistance | general search warrants |
| Quartering Act | colonists had to provide quarters (house) for the British troops. |
| Declaratory Act | passed when Stamp Act was repealed….colonists ignored it. Gave Parliament the right to impose any laws on colonies |
| Boston Massacre | March 5 1770. When a angry crowd of colonists taunted British soldiers and the soldiers fired on the crowd....killing 5 |
| Burning of the Gaspee | a British ship in Rhode Island that enforced taxes and did not allow smuggling. Colonists burnt it as a show of defiance |
| Boston Tea Party | December 16 1773. Colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor protesting |
| No… | taxation without representation |
| Colonists were afraid of | what British were doing in Quebec |
| Declaration of Rights and Grievances | a document created during the First Continental Congress that declared taxes unconstitutional and unfair |
| Rhode Island | where colonists came from that burnt the Gaspee |
| Gaspee | ship the colonists burnt down |
| Moderates | believed that Parliament had the right to regulate trade but NOT tax the colonies |
| Conservatives | at the First Continental Congress they opposed anything that might lead to a break from Britain |
| Radicals | argued Parliament had No right o impose laws on the colonies |
| boycott | refuse to buy |
| customs duty | a tax on products brought into a country |
| effigy | when someone hangs or burns a dummy to represent someone |
| repeal | do away with |
| revenue | income |
| propaganda | to tell one side of a story to win support of a cause |
| monopoly | complete control |
| Sons of Liberty | they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party |
| John Adams | Patriot leader who defended the British soldiers who were accused in the Boston Massacre |
| Crispus Attucks | first person killed in Boston Massacre |
| Thomas Hutchinson | Governor of Massachusetts |
| Paul Revere | patriot whose engraving of the Boston Massacre increased anti-British feelings |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief who gathered neighboring tribes to attack British forces |
| George III | King of England |
| Lord Jeffery Amherst | felt that Indians must be punished for being Indian allies |
| Charles Townshend | secretary of treasury |
| Sam Adams | gave “Boston Massacre” its name |
| Grenville | British Prime Minister who believed that colonists should pay for their own defense |
