5-2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
boycott
A refusal to buy or use goods and services.
writ of assistance
Court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching. Britain used this to search for smuggled goods that had not paid taxes.
repeal
To cancel an act or law.
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence.
John Adams
A cousin of Samuel Adams and a lawyer who defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
Proclamation of 1763
Law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War to prevent fighting between colonists and Native Americans.
Sugar Act of 1764
An act that raised taxes in the colonies for Britain. It taxed sugar and molasses.
Stamp Act of 1765
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. The colonists boycotted British goods, tarred and feathered tax collectors and shouted “No taxation without representation.” The Stamp Act was repealed.
Quartering Act of 1765
Act forcing colonists to house and supply British forces in the colonies.
Townshend Acts of 1767
Tax on tea, glass, lead, paint and paper. Colonists protested these acts also.
Boston Massacre of 1770
An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. Samuel Adams used this event to create more anti-British hatred in the colonies.
“No taxation without representation”
Colonists did not want to be taxed if they did not have a representative in Britain’s Parliament.
