Acts and events

Tea act

Law that allowed the east Indian company to sell directly to colonists

Boston tea party was the outcome

incident in which colonists threw tea into

Boston Harbor

first continental Congress

group of delegates from 12 colonies who met in Philadelphia in September 1774

Massachusetts Militia

Prepare to fight at a minutes notice

Boston tea party

Protest against the tea act by the sons of liberty

First Continental Congress

Delicates from 12 colonies who gathered to unite intolerable acts

Lexington and concord

Shots heard from around the world

Paul Revere

Rode through the night to warn townspeople that British troops were heading toward concord

Daughters of liberty

A group of angry colonists who protest British policies

Intolerable acts

Kings and parliaments reaction to the tea party

Intolerable acts provisions:

Closed Boston, limited town meetings to once a year, British officers trialed in England, stricter quartering act

Boycott

Protest the stamp act, colonists joined together to refuse to buy certain goods

Repealed

In 1766, parliament agreed to CANCEL the stamp act

Writ of assistance + Townshend acts

Colonists protested that legal documents under which customs officials could inspect a ships cargo without giving a reason, violated their rights

Nonimportation agreement

in response to the Townshend act, merchants and farmers signed promises to stop importing goods tax by the Townshend acts

committee of correspondence

Samuel Adams organized a group that wrote letters and pamphlets are reporting on events in Massachusetts

Sam Adams

Organized the sons of liberty, committee of correspondence, and Boston tea party

Sugar act

Tax on molasses and everything made from it

Stamp Act

Taxed legal documents and printed material

Proclamation of 1763

Closed land west of Appalachian Mountains and forbade colonist from moving west

Provisions of Townshend acts:

Taxed: glass, paper, lead and tea

Why did colonist protest the quartering act?

The colonist protested the quartering act because of force colonist to house and supply for the British soldiers

Quartering act

Required colonist to pay for housing and supplying of British

John Adams

Defended soldiers charged in Boston massacre

Boston massacre

Shooting a five Bostonians by British soldiers

Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers judged in the Boston massacre?

He did this to defend the right to trial and for justice