1/28/22 Flashcards
legal documents to search homes for smuggled goods, without a warrant
Writs of Assistance
Rebellious Women’s group, and against the unfair taxes.
Daughters of Liberty
she published plays that made fun of the British officials.
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was good friends with
Abigail Adams
March 5, 1770 Tensions were high between the colonists and the Redcoats. A fight breaks out and the colonists start throwing snowballs at the redcoats the word “Fire,” was shouted and the soldiers panicked and fired into the crowd.
Boston Massacre
During the Boston Massacre the colonists were having a
snowball fight
During the Boston Massacre a colonist shouted
Fire
___ (number) colonist died at the Massacre
5
African American dock worker (former sailor) and he belonged to the Sons of Liberty. He was the first to die at the massacre.
Crispus Attucks
he was the cousin to Sam Adams and will eventually become the 2nd president of United States.
John Adams
John Adams defended the British Soldiers so they would get a
Fair Trial
Defense Attourney
John Adams
Prosecuting Attorney
Thomas Beckett
John Adams’ was Argument that the Redcoats killed the colonist in
Self defense
The British soldiers punishment was their
thumbs were branded
Colonists used this it is information designed to influence opinion
Propaganda
The colonists said the British soldiers ____ the colonists.
Slaugtered
In 1772 Sam Adams orgainized the
“Committees of Correspondence”
Members wrote letters to other colonists in other colonies and kept them informed of what going on politically
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence was a MAJOR tool of the.
Revolution
Because of Committees of Correspondence within 3 months there were _______ throughout the colonies.
80 committees
