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trouble over taxes
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stamp Act | Put taxes on all legal documents (BA) |
| Stamp Act Congress | Delegates fro colonies met up to fight against the stamp act |
| Sugar Act | Put taxes on molasses, coffee and indigo |
| Quartering Act | allowed British soldiers to stay and live in colonists home if they wished |
| No Taxation Without Representation | colonists formed a boycott against the taxes which only made the tax higher |
| Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Leader: Sam Adams they were totally against the British and started boycotts against British taxes |
| Townshend Act | Put taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint and lead |
| Writs of Assistance | Law was made to stop merchantsmuggling; British can inspect a ships cargo whenever this law was written |
| Non-Importation Agreements | Colonists agreed not to important goods taxed by Townshend Act |
| Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770, Colonists taunted British soldiers, colonists got chaotic, 5 people ended up shot, 4 people DIED |
| Committee of Correspondence | Colonists spread news of Intolerable Acts, soon other colonies knew, South Carolina, Virginia and PA sent flower, rice and corn to Massachusetts |
| Tea Act | taxes on British tea from the East India Company |
| Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773. Sam Adams and sons of liberty went on British ships and poured 1 million dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Act | King George enforced British soldiers to enforce four harsh laws. 1: Boston Harbor was closed. 2:forbade MA colonists to attend town meetings. 3: Colonists couldn't be out after sundown. 4: Passed a new quartering act that only applied to MA colonists |
| First Continental Congress | Colonial leaders called meeting in Philadelphia, 12 delegates from 12 colonies became the first Continental Congress. Georgia was the only colony that didn't send a delegate |
| Midnight Ride | Paul Revere got up at midnight and rode around the towns of Lexington and Concord to warm other colonists that the British were coming |
| Shot Heard Around the World | At daybreak red coats reached Lexington, near Concord. British soldiers outnumbered the colonists militia. One shot rang and noone knows who it was from, war had begun and left 8 colonists dead and one wounded at the Common in Lexington |
| Patrick Henry | Violent critic of British, made speeches in House of Burgesees, moved listeners to tears and anger, he quoted "Give me liberty, or give me death." |
| Mercy Otis Warren | Published plays that made fun of British officals |
| Samuel Adams | Cousins to John Adams, leader of Sons of Liberty, his best talent was organizing people and protests |
| John Adams | Cousin of Samuel Adams. Skilled lawyer of knowledge and the law gained him respect |
| George Washington | Member of Continental Congress. Gained fame as head of Continental Army, used to be wealthy Virginian surveyor and later became the first President. |
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