Revolutionary Era Flashcards
The proclamation of 1773 stated that the colonists could not go past the _______
Appalachian Mountains
Who said “No taxation without representation.”
Samuel Adams
Required a government tax stamp on all legal documents.
Stamp Act
Stated that the colonists must find quarters for the British Soldiers stationed in America.
Quartering Acts
What was the first ever war between the British and the colonists?
The war of Bunker Hill
Charles Townshend put taxes in items that were imported from Britain.
Townshend Acts
The right to search colonial homes for snuggled goods without search assistant
Writs of Assistance
Colonists used this event as a big form of propaganda
The Boston Massacre
Who was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
The first law passed by parliament to raise money which placed tax on sugar and molasses.
Sugar Act
Prime minister, Lord North, as parliament to pass taxes on tea imported from Britain.
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists dressed up as native Americans, boarded the ship sand dumped the tea off the boat into the harbour.
a series of laws passed by Parliament to
punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts or Corcieve Acts
extended the province of Quebec southwards first continental congress
Quebec Act
colonists except British right to regulate trade, but get rid of British troops and taxes
Declaration of RIghts
