The Road To Revolution Part1 Flashcards
Documents that let the British search your house without any reasonable suspicion etc (trying to find smuggled goods)
Writs of Assistance (1760)
Tax on sugar
The Sugar Act (1764)
Tax on any kind of paper (First DIRECT tax on colonists)
Stamp Act (1765)
Made colonists have to let British pepes stay at their house
Quartering Act (1765)
Tax on imported stuff (TEA, paper, lead, glass)
Townsend Acts
Secret resistance group created by Adams who tarred and feathered tax collectors
Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre happened in (date)
1770
They set up communication between VA and Massachusetts
Committees of Correspondence
Result of Boston Tea Party
-Intolerable Acts
-Shut down Boston Harbor
-British Troops quartered in houses
-Gage becomes governor
Created in response to Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Brand new soldiers that were getting trained in prep for revolutionary war
Minutemen
Who said THE BRITISH ARE COMINGGGGG
Paul Revere
Philosopher:
-Life Liberty and property
-People can overthrow abusive gov’ts
Locke
Common Sense written by
Paine
Agreement between people and their government (ex: the constitution)
social contract