Road To Revolution Flashcards
Proclamation Line
British law that forbade American colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountain, in the Ohio River Valley
Stamp Act
A British law that put a tax on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice
Boycott
A refusal to buy goods or services
Repeal
To cancel
Forbade
To not allow
Townshend Act
A British law that taxed imported goods such as paint glass paper and tea
No importation Agreements
Promise of colonial merchants to stop importing goods taxed by the Townshend Act.
Boston Massacre
The shooting of 5 Bostonians by British soldiers on March 5 1770
Tea Act
Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists without paying taxes
Boston Tea Party
Protest in which Bostonians, dressed as Native Americans, dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws made to punish colonists for the Boston tea party’s
Quartering Acts
Law that required colonist to provide housing to British soldiers stationed in the colonies
Committee of correspondence
Groups of colonists who wrote letters to inform and unite the colonists together against British rule
Olive Branch Petition
An offering of peace by the colonist to the king of England and Parliament
Patriot
Colonist who protestedBritish taxes and wanted independence from England
