A | B |
Navigation Act | Law that regulated trade between England and the Colonies |
Stamp Act | A tax on all legal documents and newspapers (paper items) |
Sugar Act 1764 | A tax placed on sugar and molasses |
Proclamation of 1763 | Imaginary line along crest of Applachian Mts |
Mercantilism | The economic idea that colonies are established to make the mother colonial powerful |
Smuggling | To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. |
Protest | An act that expresses a strong reaction of events or situations. |
Boycott | to abstain from buying or using a product |
Stamp Act Congress | Colonial protest group consisting of delegates from the colonies taht wrote a request to England to repeal certain taxes. |
Sons of Liberty | a group from Boston that protested British policies and taxes on the colonies. |
Quartering Act | British soldiers living with colonists |
Writs of Assistance | Gave English officials the power to search colonial property |
Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty |
Townshend Acts | Tax on paint, glass, tea and paper |
Nonimportation Agreement | Signed by merchants and plantation owners agreeing not to import British products |