Social Studys Test 11/30/23 Flashcards
STAMP ACT
tax on legal documents ( wills , marriage papers , diplomas newspapers , playing cards , even dice )
DEFINE STRICT QUARTERING ACT
this act would no longer let redcoats camp in tents on Boston Common .
DEFINE BOYCOTT
Boycott means to refuse to buy certain goods and services
SONS OF LIBERTY
- they made dolls ( ephugees ) and hung them and burned them showing their anger from taxes
- stopped buying taxed goods
TOWNSEND ACT
Taxed goods such as ( glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea )
BOSTON TEA PARTY
-three ships loaded with tea reached Boston harbor in late November 1773
- men dressed as Native Americans as disguise open chests of tea and dumped it inside the harbor
- the act was finished by 10:00 pm
- more than 1,000,000 dollars in tea was dumped
INTOLERABLE ACTS
- limited town meetings ( once a year )
- Closed ports in Boston
- parliament response ( THEY WERE OUTRAGED )
STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- 9 colonies represented
- held in New York city
DEFINE PETITION
a petition is a formal written request to someone in authority .
DEFINE REPEAL
an act of cancellation and denying something .
DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY
- made their own tea from raspberry bushes
- asked people to sign petitions
- stopped buying taxed goods
WRITS OF ASSISTANCE
Using this legal document , it gave the officers the right to search homes and ships cargo without a given reason
NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENTS
- British merchants agreed to stop importing taxed British goods
- replaces British tea with liberty tea
- some didn’t sign , they were loyal
BOSTON MASSACRE
- crowd gathered outside Boston customs house
- 5 people were killed
- colonists shouted insults and dared soldiers to fire
- colonists threw ( clubs , snowballs , and ice )
TEA ACT
this granted the British east indies company a rebate on tea taxes , ( no taxation without representation )
