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Proclamation of 1763
Official announcement from British government that ended all settlement west of the Apalachain Mountains
Stamp Act
Passed in 1765 by British Parliament that forced people to pay tax on items such as newspapers and legal documents
Quartering Act
Passed in 1765; it required colonists to pay for quartering (housing and feeding) British soldiers in their area
The Writs of Assistance
Written orders that allowed officials to conduct unrestricted searches for suspected smuggled goods; blank search warrants
Townshed Acts
Laws passed by the British Parliament that placed import duties on tea, paper, glass, and paint.
Boycott
Refusal to buy goods or have dealings with a country or entity, usually to express diapproval or force acceptance of certain conditions
Coercive/ Intolerable Acts
-A series of harsh acts that came as a response to the Boston Tea Party
Mercantilism
the theory that a state's power depends on its wealth
Colony
settlement made by a parent company
The First Continental Congress
a respone to the Intolerable acts
The Second Continental Congress
An army was formed and George Washington was chosen to lead it
Hessians
professional German soldiers
Navigation Acts
~laws passed by England to control colonial trade.
~Passed to make mercantilism work.
John Locke
Philosopher who's ideas inspired the Declaration of Independence
"No Taxation Without Representation"
the colonists wanted say in the government
Boston Massacre
After the French and Indian war, causing high taxation, the tension between the colonists and the British broke, causing a killing of 5 people. The colonists called it a massacre as a propaganda to get more colonists to join the cause of the Sons of Liberty.
Boston Tea Party
After the stamp act, Townshend acts, and Boston Massacre...
On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.