Chapter 4 Flashcards
1
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Samuel Adams
A
Local leader
2
Q
Committee of correspondence
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Adams help found it; each part of the committee got in touch with other towns and colonies
3
Q
Stamp Act of 1765
A
Required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal when they brought paper items
4
Q
Mercy Otis Warren
A
A writer in the Massachusetts colony, disagreed with new tax
5
Q
Boston Massacre
A
Shootings
6
Q
Tea Act
A
Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists
7
Q
Boston Tea Party
A
Three tea-filled ships dumped 340 chests of tea into the Harbor
8
Q
Intolerable Acts
A
Laws that had effects
9
Q
Quartering Act
A
Required colonists to house British soldiers
