Vocab Flashcards
Income
Revenue
A cost saving measure that required the colonies to house British soldiers
Quartering Act
A tax on sugar, molasses and other goods shipped to colonies
Sugar Act
A refusal to buy
Boycott
A plan in 1767 used to raise revenue
Townsend Acts
Search warrants
Writs of Assistance
Samuel Adams way to make civilians remember liberty
Committee of Correspondence
A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution. An emergency military force that is not part of the regular army
Militia
A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
American colonists who supported the British in the Americas
Loyalists
An American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution
Patriot