law that said Parliament had the
supreme authority to govern the
13 American colonies
Because of this LAW…
Colonists organized the Sons of
Liberty, Daughters of Liberty, and
boycotted British goods in protest
Declaratory
Act
Stamp Act
Law that made it illegal for
English colonists
to settle west of the
Appalachian Mountains.
This meeting was in response
to the Intolerable Acts.
12 of the 13 colonies sent
delegates to Philadelphia, PA.
Proclamation of
1763
st
1
Continental
Congress
Law that gave the British East
India Company a monopoly on
the colonial tea trade, and
forced the colonists
to buy British tea
Tea Act
Townshend Acts
Law that placed an Indirect tax
on items like glass, lead, paper,
paint, and tea.
Boston Massacre
Event in 1770 where 5
American colonists were
killed by British soldiers
Laws that closed the port of
Boston, and suspended colonial
town meetings to punish the
colonies for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
or
Coercive Acts
Sugar Act
British Law that taxed
sugar & molasses
Quartering Act
law that required colonists to
house & feed British soldiers
Event where the American
colonists dumped 92,000 pounds
of tea into the Boston Harbor in
protest of the Tea Act
The lawyer that defended the
British soldiers accused in the
Boston Massacre even though he
was a patriot & disliked the soldiers.
Boston Tea Party
John Adams
Stamp Act
law that required colonists to pay
a tax on all printed materials
Secret group of patriots that
organized several protests
against the British including
the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
Paul Revere
Patriot that did the famous engraving of
the Boston Massacre portraying the
colonists as poor, unsuspecting victims,
and the British as vicious killers
The leader and founder of
the Sons of Liberty