Terms/Vocabulary for Road to the Revolution
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| 8059522 | Stamp Act | taxed all legal documents | 0 | |
| 8059523 | Townshend Act | taxed paper, glass, silk, lead, and tea | 1 | |
| 8059524 | Quartering Act | allowed British soldiers to be placed in the homes of the colonists | 2 | |
| 8059525 | Intolerable Acts | closed the port of Boston, ended town meetings, was the British response to the Boston Tea Party | 3 | |
| 8059526 | Tea Act | created to help the British East India Company sell tea directly to the colonists | 4 | |
| 8061013 | First Continental Congress | urged colonists to set up militias or citizen armies to defend against the British | 5 | |
| 8061014 | Declaration of Independence | 3 Parts include: rights of people, wrongs of the king, declaration of independence (new country) | 6 | |
| 8061015 | boycott | refusal to buy goods or services in protest | 7 | |
| 8061016 | French and Indian War | caused by disputed claims in the Ohio River Valley; costs for this war led to many taxes on the colonists | 8 | |
| 8061017 | "no taxation without representation" | colonist's argument against taxes; colonists did not have representation in Parliament so they felt that the taxes were unfair | 9 | |
| 8061018 | propaganda | used to promote or put down an idea; Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is an example | 10 | |
| 8061019 | tarring and feathering | used to frighten tax collectors; often accompanied by pouring hot tea down their throats | 11 | |
| 8061020 | Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act | 12 | |
| 8062919 | Proclamation of 1763 | forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains | 13 | |
| 8062920 | Sugar Act | put a tax on molasses | 14 | |
| 8062921 | Declaratory Act | reminded the colonists that England had all power to tax them when necessary | 15 | |
| 8062922 | mercantilism | idea that colonies are set up to benefit the mother country | 16 | |
| 8062923 | Triangular Trade | smuggling route that colonists used to avoid having to sell goods only to England | 17 | |
| 8062924 | Writs of assistance | allowed British soldiers to search ships without warrants | 18 | |
| 8062925 | Petition | formal request to someone in authority; used by colonists to send to the king | 19 | |
| 8062926 | Repeal | to cancel or undo | 20 | |
| 8062927 | Nonimportation agreement | colonists agreed not to import goods taxed by England | 21 | |
| 8062928 | Committees of Correspondence | set up to communicate news of mutual interest throughout the colonies | 22 | |
| 8062929 | Sons/Daughters of Liberty | groups of patriots working to end unfair British practices | 23 | |
| 8062930 | Sam Adams | famous Son of Liberty | 24 | |
| 8062931 | John Adams | Son of Liberty who later became second president of the United States | 25 | |
| 8062932 | Mercy Otis Warren | Daughter of Liberty who wrote plays to protest British actions | 26 | |
| 8062933 | Patrick Henry | ardent patriot:; "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" | 27 | |
| 8062934 | Boston Massacre | 5 colonists shot; exaggerated to increase anti-British feelings | 28 | |
| 8062935 | Militia | citizen soldiers; sometimes called minutemen | 29 | |
| 8062936 | Lexington and Concord | "shot heard round the world"; start of the Revolution | 30 |
