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chapter 5 + 6 s.s
Term | Definition |
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Stamp Act 1764 | tax on molasses, coffee and indigo |
Quatering Act 1765 | British troops can stay in colonial homes colonisits supply them with food,bedding,and candels |
"No taxation without representation" 1765 | colonists rebel bc they were not represented in parliament riots in cities, fires, effigy |
boston tea party Dec. 16, 1773 | members of sons and daughters of liberty dress as indians and dump containers of tea into the Boston Harbor |
Intolerable Acts | punish mass. for the tea party close down ports in boston no more town meetings br. officials have trials in england, revise quatering act. |
sons of liberty | men who were extreme rebels of the british, caused many riots, sam and john adams included |
Sam adams | great leader, stood strongly against British law, from mass. |
John Adams | believes in law, but is also against british law |
boycott | stop buying goods |
midnight ride- april 1775 | paul revere + 2 others send of word of british movement. - use lanterns to hint if the british are coming by land or sea |
paul revere | main rider in the midnight ride who warned everyone of the british attack on lexington and concord |
lexington and concord | - first fight with british and colonial minutemen |
french and indian war | - war between indians for ohio river valley land. treaty of paris 1763 ended war. proclomation of 1763 was passed to keep colonists from moving into the ohio river valley land which they won |
continental congress | delegates from 12 colonies goals: continue boycott, stop importing/exporting, set up militia |