Emrich-Taxation Acts

This act concerned the colonial merchants and smugglers because they feared British merchants would see this as an opportunity to take over other areas of trade.

Tea Act

This act taxed imported goods such as glass, paper, and tea.

Townshend Acts

This act taxed printed materials such as newspapers, wills, and playing cards.

Stamp Act

Which act did the Daughters of Liberty and other female groups protested with a boycott on British fabrics and tea.

Townshend Acts

This act was created as a result of an agreement made between the British East India Company & Parliament.

Tea Act

This act canceled Massachusetts’s charter, so the government was now under British control.

Intolerable/Coercive Acts

This act included a tax on molasses imported from England.

Sugar Act

This act required colonists to house British soldiers.

Quartering Act

Loyalist of Patriot: Believed Britain would win a war with the colonists.

Loyalist

Loyalist or Patriot: Sided with the British, loyal to King George III.

Loyalist

Loyalist or Patriot: Typically made up of lawyers, teachers, and colonial assembly members.

Patriot

Loyalist or Patriot: Did not want a rebellion.

Loyalist

Loyalist or Patriot: Supported the war for independence from Britain.

Patriot

Definition of effigy

A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual

Definition of militia

Small army made up of everyday citizens trained to protect the town/colony in an emergency

Definition of boycott

To refuse to buy items in order to protest

Definition of propaganda

Ideas or information intentionally spread

to help or harm a cause

Definition of repeal

To take back, or cancel, a law

What was the Boston Tea Party?

when colonists threw British tea into the Boston Harbor

The reason the Boston Tea Party happened is because…

Colonists were protesting the Tea Act and British taxes.

One consequence for the Boston Tea Party was…

Britain punished the colonists by making the Intolerable Acts

What was the Boston Massacre?

British soldiers shot and killed several colonists during a protest in Boston.

The Boston Massacre was used as propaganda by who?

Patriots