Placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies –

newspapers, wills pamphlets, playing cards

The Stamp Act

Allowed the British East India Company to get a

tax break on tea shipped to the colonies

The Tea Act

•Closed Boston Harbor until ruined tea was paid for

•Banned town meetings•Required colonists to feed & quarter British soldiersCoercive Act/

Intolerable Acts

Placed a tax on glass, paint, lead and tea

The Townshend Acts

British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists killing

five

Boston Massacre

Sons of Liberty dress up like Indians and toss 342 chests of tea into Boston

Harbor

Boston Tea Party

Gang of rebel colonists led by Samuel Adams who

terrorized British tax collectors and promoted rebellion against British

occupation Sons of Liberty

Gave British officials permission to search

anywhere for smuggled goods & allowed “guilty until proven innocent”

mentality Writs of Assistance

British won the battle at Breed’s Hill but learned

that defeating the colonist would not be quick or easy

Bunker Hill

“The Shot Heard Round the World”

The first encounters between British regulars

and Colonial minutemen. Concord, Lexington & the Old North Bridge

“The British are coming! The British are coming!”

Paul Revere

Organized Committees of Correspondence, was the leader of Sons of Liberty,

and owned a TavernSamuel Adams

Incoming money

Revenue

To cancel an act or law.

Repeal

To refuse to buy items from a particular country

Boycott

Rag figure representing an unpopular individual

Effigy

Ideas or information designed and spread to

influence opinion

Propaganda

Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on

a minute’s notice

Minuteman

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for

independence

Loyalist

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won

Patriot

A law that was suppose to stop smuggling by lowering

the tax on molasses imported by the colonists.

Sugar Act