Pre Revolution
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- Stamp Act
- A tax on printed materials, heavily protested against in the Colonies.
- Quartering Act
- Forced colonist to house and supply British soldiers with food and other necessities.
- Lexington and Concord
- Known as the "Shot heard around the World."
- Boston Tea Party
- Sons of Liberty and other colonists dressed as Mohawks, and threw tea into Boston Harbor.
- Boycott
- A form of protest, in which a country agrees to not import items from another country.
- Minutemen
- Farmers who had to be ready to fight in a moment's notice.
- Proclamation of 1763
- Forbid colonist to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains.
- Coercive Acts
- Another name for the Intolerable Acts.
- Paul Revere
- Member of the Sons Of Liberty, created an engraving of the Boston Massacre to unite colonists.
- Repeal
- The cancellation of an act or law. ex) The Stamp Act
- Townshend Act
- Laws created by British Parliament to prove they still controlled the Colonies.
- Treaty of Paris
- This document ended the French and Indian War in 1763.
- Propaganda
- Ideas created to spark controversy and influence opinion.
- Sons of Liberty
- Group of Colonists who protested against British taxes.
- Daughters of Liberty
- Colonial women that protested British taxes, made soap and punch.
- Loyalists
- Colonists who were loyal to Britain and opposed Independence.
- Patriots
- Colonists who determined to fight against Britain for Independence.
- Effigy
- A rag figure, that symbolizes an unpopular person, like a tax collector.
- Boston Massacre
- A riot that occured between Colonist and British soldiers, leaving 5 colonists dead.
- Crispus Attucks
- 1st casualty of the American Revolution (Boston Massacre).