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Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Stamp Act | Tax on paper (legal documents, playing cards, newspaper) |
Townshend Acts | Tax on glass, tea, paper, lead |
Daughters of Liberty | Women who organized and made their own cloth and tea to boycott British taxes |
Committee of Correspondence | Group of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly |
Tea Act | Act declaring that colonists could only buy tea from the British East India Company |
Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by British to punish colonists after the Boston Tea Party. (Sent more British soldiers to Boston, closed down Boston Harbor) |
Boston Tea Party | Event where colonists boarded British merchant ships and threw tea into Boston Harbor |
Sons of Liberty | Groups of patriots who oppose British rule |
Boston Massacre | Event where British soldiers killed 5 colonists |
First Continental Congress | Meeting of Representatives from the colonies to discuss how to respond to Intolerable Acts |