LESSON 1 Flashcards
Debt
owe money to someone
King George III
britsh king wanted to tax colonies
Parliament
people who make British laws
Stamp act
tax on paper products like newspapers and legal documents
No taxation without representation
don’t tax us without our input
Patrick Henry
He was against the stamp act
Congress
Is a formal meeting
Repeal
Cancel the stamp act
Sons of liberty
Organized protest
Effigy
Life sized puppet
Boycotts
People Stop buying products
Tariff
Tax on many goods that are coming from another country
Samuel Adams
Fought for American rights
Mercy Otis Warren
We’ll quit the useless vanities
Daughters of liberty
Created spinning bees , stopped buying the British’s clothes
Townshend acts
Tea was the only thing taxed
Boston Massacre
Is the killing of many people.British soldiers shot and killed five people
Crispus Attucks
Escaped slavery
Express riders
Writen message to give from one country to another one quickly.
Paul Revere
A Boston silversmith, one of the express riders
Boston tea party
Threw the tea overboard because did not want to pay taxes.342 chests of tea
Intolerable act
Quarter and martial law. Blockaded.
Quarter
Had a bed to sleep and food to eat.
Martial law
Controlled by the military.
