Boston Tea Party
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136537918 | Patriot | A person who questions King George III | |
136537919 | Loyalist | A person who supports King George III | |
136537920 | Boycott | A protest / Not buying something | |
136537921 | Revolution | A change or over throw of the government | |
136537922 | Sons of Liberty | An organized group of Patriots to protest the tax- 1765 | |
136537923 | Sam Adams | "This meeting can do nothing more to save our country" | |
136537924 | Crispus Attucks | First person to die in the Boston massacre | |
136537925 | Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death" | |
136537926 | King George III | The King of England | |
136537927 | James Otis | "Taxation without representation is tyrrany" | |
136537928 | General Thomas Gage | The commander of the British Army | |
136537929 | Sugar Act | 1764- taxed on sugar, wine, coffee, dyes, and cloth | |
136537930 | Stamp Act | 1765- Taxed on playing cards, newspapers, books, pamphlets, legal documents :wills | |
136537931 | Townshend Acts | 1767- Taxed on glass, led, tea, painters colors | |
136537932 | Boston Massacre | 1770- 5 colonists killed by british troops | |
136537933 | Tea Act | 1770- Parliament takes away the Townshed Acts except for the tea. | |
136537934 | Boston Tea Party | 1773- Men disguised as Mohawks threw tea into the harbor to protest the tax on tea. | |
136537935 | French and Indian War | The English fought against France for the land in North America. England won but needed to pay off the debts of the war. |