| A | B |
|---|
| Navigation Acts | 1660 act stating colonies could only ship their goods on British vessels |
| Sugar Act | Act placing a tax on sugar and molasses from West Indies |
| Countries that GA traded sugar with | Barbados and Jamaica |
| stamp act | 1765 act to tax and raise money for the French and Indian war |
| tax on newspapers, legal documents and licenses | The Stamp Act |
| Tories | Loyalists, British royalists or "Kings Friends" |
| Patriots | Whigs, liberty Boys, Sons and Daughters of Liberty |
| Quakers, Mennonites and Moravians | Pacifists, they did not believe in fighting due to religious beliefs |
| Redcoats or lobsterbacks | red coated British soldiers |
| Council of Safety | set up by Ga patriots when the Provincial Congress joined the boycott against Britain |
| Boycott | protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until specific conditions are met |
| Fence sitters | people that would not commit to either side |
| Liberty Boys | Georgians that came together to oppose the Stamp Act |
| Tondee's Tavern | the meeting place for the Liberty Boys |
| The Georgia Gazette | Georgia's only newspaper |
| The Townsend Acts | 1767, placed import taxes on tea, paper, glass, and color for paints |
| Noble Wimberly Jones | speaker elected by the assembly |
| Governor Wright | governor that tried to end the assembly, as it was against the King's views |
| "No taxation without representation" | a pre-Revolution slogan |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd that had insulted the soldiers and thrown snowballs |
| Paul Revere | a copper engraver, dumped tea into Boston harbor, made a midnight ride |
| "The Boston Tea Party" | Patriots rebelled and dumped tea into the harbor |
| Tea Act | 1773, Parliament kept taxing tea in the colonies |
| Intolerable Acts | Four laws Parliament did to punish colonists in Massachusetts |
| Quartering Act | part of the Intolerable acts, citizens must house and feed soldiers |
| Continental Congress | 1774, colonists organized to find solutions for Britain's actions |
| Committee of Safety | formed during Continental Congress to boycott |
| How are governors selected after the 1st state Constitution? | selected by the legislature |
| What is a weakness of the 1st Ga. constitution? | unicameral legisture had power to appoint a governor and control his actions |
