First Contenental Congress | | Refuse to buy a certain item |
revenue | | A search warrant that allowed British officers to search colonists' homes for smuggled goods |
Patriot | | Led the Green Mountain Boys to capture a major British fort. |
Stamp Act | | A governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army and to approve the Dec. of Independence. |
Sons of Liberty | | One of the leaders of the expedition to invade Quebec and fight the British |
Continenal Army | | A meeting of delegates from all colonies but Georgia to uphold colonial rights, |
Declaration of Independence | | A lawer, cousin to Samuel Adams, who defended the British soldiers who shot the colonists in the Boston Massacre |
King George III | | A law that required you to feed and house soldiers in times of war |
artillery | | A secret society of colonists to oppose British policies |
Boston Tea Party | | A clash between the colonists and British officers in which Crispus Attucks and 4 other colonists were killed |
Quartering Act | | A series of laws that suspended New York's assemblies |
Thomas Jefferson | | A member of the militia trained to respond at 'a minute's notice.' |
Loyalist | | (use roman numerals) wanted to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 |
committee of correspondence | | Composer of the Declaration of Independence |
Samuel Adams | | A law passed by Parliament that required strict punishment for smugglers; also required taxes paid on sugar, molasses, etc |
Lexington and Concord | | A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the Stamp tax |
boycott | | A colonist loyal to England |
Patrick Henry | | A colonist loyal to the new country |
Benedict Arnold | | The son of a Native American mother and African father; died in the Boston Massacre |
writs of assistance | | A messenger for the Sons of Liberty who spread the news of how the British soldiers were coming- by land or sea |
militia | | income a government collects to cover expenses |
John Adams | | A colonial force with George Washington as its commanding general. |
Paul Revere | | Sites in Massachusetts of the 1st battle of the Revolution |
Sugar Act | | A group of armed civilians pledged to defend their community |
Crispus Attucks | | A leader of the Sons of Liberty |
Ethan Allen | | A series of laws passed by Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
minuteman | | The dumping of 342 cases of tea in the Boston harbor by colonists dressed as Native Americans to protest the Tea Tax |
Second Continental Congress | | Required all legal/commercial documents carry an official stamp showing taw had been paid |
Townshend Acts | | A cannon or large gun |
Boston Massacre | | The document in which the colonies declared independence from Britain |
Intolerable Acts | | A group of people in colonies that exchange letters on colonial affairs |