Unit 5: Road to Revolution Flashcards
Boycott:
Refusing to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of non violent protesting.
petition
a written request to a government
Writs of Assistance:
Court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching.
Boston Massacre:
An angry group of workers and sailors surrounded a small group of soldiers and threw rocks and snowballs at them. The soldiers feared for their safety and shot at the crowd and killed five people. Used for propaganda.
Boston Tea Party:
On December 16, 1773, a large group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded a tea ship and after three hours, they threw 342 cases of tea into the harbor, destroying 90,000 pounds of tea worth thousands of dollars.
Minute Men:
Citizen soldiers known and named for their ability ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
First Continental Congress:
A meeting that took place in Philadelphia in September and October 1774. 12 of the 13 colonies sent delegates. Demanded the official end of the Intolerable Acts and declared that the colonies had a right to tax and govern themselves. It also called for the training of militias to stand up to British troops if necessary. The Congress also called for a new boycott of British goods.
Patriots:
People for rebelling against England, and becoming separate from them/being independent of them.
Loyalists:
People against the rebellion, loyal to the king, didn’t want to be independent from England.
The cause of the French and Indian War:
France and England were fighting over control of land in North America.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
The Proclamation of 1763 banned colonial settlement west of a line drawn in the Appalachian Mountains
Why did the British impose new taxes on the American colonists?
The British imposed new taxes on the American colonists because they needed money after the French And Indian War.
Stamp Act: Taxed newspaper, will, license, insurance policies, land titles, contracts, and many other documents.
Colonist Reactions?
The colonists reacted by boycotting British goods and speeches Many assemblies passed resolutions declaring that it alone had the right to tax its own people
Tea Act: Tea, glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper. Allows British to directly control East India Tea to sell tea to the colonists, monopoly on tea.
Colonists reaction?
The colonists reacted with the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts, Closed the port of Boston until colonists paid for the destroyed tea, the Royal governor could ban town meetings British officials accused of crimes would stand trial in Britain instead of Massachusetts, New Quartering Act
Colonists reaction?
the colonists replied with the First Continental Congress
