Boston Massacre vocab

quartering act

Colonists must house and supply British soldiers

sugar act

A tax on sugar and molasses (impacted merchants only)

Stamp act

a tax on printed materials (impacted everyone)

stamp act congress

a comitee created to protest the Stamp Act

Boycott

refuse to boy

Repeal

to cancel/get rid of

Sons of Liberty

A secret society organized to oppose British policies

Townsend Act

a tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea

Boston Massacre

a conflict between colonists and the British soldiers that resulted in the death of 5 colonists.

Tea act

a tax on tea

Boston tea party

a protest against the tea act in which colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

Coercive Acts/ Intolerable acts

a series of acts passed by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea party

Loyalist

someone who remains loyal to Britain and the King and does NOT want independence from Britain

Patriot

someone who supposed complete independence from Britain