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Proclamation of 1763
Law prohibiting colonists from living west of Appalachian mts.
Sons of Liberty
Secret organization protesting British laws and taxes
Stamp act
Law forcing colonists to purchase stamps with all paper products
Quartering act
Law ordering each colony to be responsible for housing and caring for British troops
Boycott
Refusal to buy goods
Townshend acts
Law taxing all British goods sold in Americas
Boston Massacre
British troops open fire on mob of colonists, 5 colonists dead
Tea act
Law taxing tea
Boston tea party
Sons of liberty disguise themselves as Indians and throw tea into Boston harbor
Loyalists
Those loyal to crown
Patriots
Those who believed in revolution
Neutralist
Impartial to freedom
First continental congress
Representatives from almost every colony meet to peacefully draft a letter to king George addressing the taxes
Which colony was not present for the first continental congress?
Georgia
Tyranny
abuse of power
Intolerable acts
British response to Boston tea party putting mass. under complete British rule and supervision
Lexington
British victory
Concord
Colonist victory
What path did the British take during the midnight ride?
Sea
Colonists governed and taxed themselves
before 1763
Parliament could shut down colonial governments
Colonial assemblies and government
New York government shut down for
quartering acts
Mass shut down for
Boston tea party
