Social studies 4.1 vocab

Stamp Act

• required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac,

Samuel Adams

-founder of the sons of liberty.

Townshend Acts

-indirect taxes on imported materials like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Boston Massacre

-British guards killing five protestors

committees of Correspondence

-a committee made to communicate with other colonies about this and other threats to American liberties.

Boston Tea Party

-colonists disguised themselves as Indians and snuck onto a ship and dumped tea into the harbor.

King George III

-The king of England.

Intolerable Acts

-laws made by Britain to punish the colonists.

martial law

-rule imposed by military officers

minutemen

-civilian soldiers.