Lesson 1 Flashcards
Debt
owe money to someone
King George III
british king wanted to tax colonists
Parliament
people who make British laws
Stamp act
tax on paper products news papers, documents etc.
No taxation without representation
don’t tax us without our input
Congress
formal meeting which can make laws
Patrick henry
Fought against the stamp act
Repeal
Cancel stamp act
Sons of liberty
organized protests
Effigy
life sized puppet
Boycott
stop buying products
Townshend act
taxed paper wool glass paint led
Tariff
taxes on goods coming from another country
Samuel addams
fought for American rights
Mercy Otis warren
made her own things
Daughters of liberty
made their own clothes and tea Spinning bees
Tea tax
only thing that was not taxed after townshend acts got repealed
Boston massacre
5 people died by the shooting of British soldiers
Crispus attucks
escaped slave that got shot
Massacre
killing of many people
Express writers
get messages to people by horse
paul rever
One of the express writers
Boston tea party
dressed as Indians and threw tea into water 342
Intolerable acts
Blockade, quarter, martial law