Question | Answer |
A law that required colonists to pay for the housing of British soldiers | Quartering Act |
a tax placed on goods such a lead, paper, paint, glass and tea | Townsend Act |
groups of colonists formed to plan protests of British acts and policies | Sons of Liberty |
a colonist who supported American Independence | Patriot |
A line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains tht forbade the colonists to settle west | Proclamation of 1763 |
a colonist who remained loyal to British and the King | Loyalist |
a tax placed on legal documents and paper goods, such as newspapers, wills, playing cards... | Stamp Act |
search warrants which allowed British officers to search homes and ships for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
the argument of colonists over taxes passed by Parliament without the support of colonial vote or voice | Taxation Without Representation |
an early tax on molasses that established Britian's right to tax colonists | Sugar Act |
a law that requiread colonies to trade only with Britain | Navigation Acts |
attacks by Native Americans in the Ohio Country on colonial forts and settlements in an attempt to drive settlers off land | Pontiac's War |
violation of British trade laws illegally bringing goods in or out of the colonies | Smuggling |
the accidental shooting of several colonists by British Redcoats during a colonial protest of the Townsend Acts | Boston Massacre |