American Pageant Chapter 7 APUSH Review (Period 3)

Suffolk

Suffolk

________ Resolves: boycott British goods until the intolerable Acts were repealed.

John Dickinson

________ "Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania "argued "no taxation without representation.

Committees of Correspondence

________ (1772) led by Samuel Adams were used to keep up communication & Resistance to British policies.

Stamp Act

________ (1765) placed a tax on a variety of legal documents & items.

Stamp Act Congress

________- reps from 9 colonies met to oppose British policies.

British soldiers

Quartering Act (1765) colonists required to provide food & housing for ________.

John Adams

________ defends the British soldiers against murder charges.

Sugar Act

________ (1764) passed on sugar to raise revenue.

Townshend Act

________ (1767): tax on imports such as paper, tea, glass, etc.

Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty

________: Secret organization that at times used violence to disrupt enforcement of the act Theater.

Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty

Secret organization that at times used violence to disrupt enforcement of the act Theater

Townshend Act (1767)

tax on imports such as paper, tea, glass, etc

Colonists created nonimportation & non

consumption agreements

Boston "Massacre" (1770)

British troops open fire near the customer house killing 5 colonists

Tea Act (1773)

gave a monopoly to the British East India Company

Colonists still opposed the Tea Act

opposed the idea that Parliament could tax the colonies

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Members of the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston harbor

Some colonists resisted the action

destruction -of private property

Suffolk Resolves

boycott British goods until the intolerable Acts were repealed