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Road to Independence. Revenue. Incoming money. Writ of Assistance. a legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled. Sugar Act. lowered the tax on molasses imported by colonists. Stamp Act.
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Revenue • Incoming money
Writ of Assistance • a legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled
Sugar Act • lowered the tax on molasses imported by colonists
Stamp Act • placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies • Ignored the colonial tradition of self government
Patrick Henry • convinced the Virginia burgesses to pass a resolutionabout the Stamp Act saying only Virginia could tax Virginians
Resolution • a formal expression of opinion
Samuel Adams • Organized the Sons of Liberty • Sons of Liberty were a group that took to the streets to protest the Stamp Act • Participated in the Boston Tea Party
Effigies • Rag figures
Stamp Act Congress • declared that the colonies could not be taxed except by their own assemblies
Boycott • Refuse to buy
Nonimportation • The act of not importing or using certain goods
Repeal • cancel
Declaratory Act • stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonists “in all cases.”
Townshend Acts • Taxed all goods being imported to the colonies, with the tax being paid at the port of entry
Daughters of Liberty • Protested the Townshend Acts • Urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce goods usually only available from Britain
Crispus Attucks • African American dock worker killed in the Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre • Incident between colonists and British Red Coats on King Street • 5 colonists were killed • Engraving by Paul Revere helped strengthen anti-British feelings
Propaganda • information designed to influence opinion
Committee of Correspondence • An organization that spread political ideas through the colonies • Restarted by Samuel Adams
Tea Act • gave East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes and to sell directly to colonial shopkeepers at a low price
Boston Tea Party • Men disguised as Mohawks threw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act • Many colonists celebrated the act of defiance • Included Samuel Adams
King George III • The King of England during the American Revolutionary War
Coercive Acts • closed Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the destroyed tea • stopped the arrival of food and other supplies • prevented town meetings or any form of self government • forced Bostonians to shelter British soldiers in their homes • colonists referred to these laws as the Intolerable Acts
(First) Continental Congress • Delegates sent to Philadelphia to establish a political body to represent American interests and challenge British control • Every colony was represented except Georgia • Called for boycott of all British goods and trade with Britain
Suffolk Resolves • called on the people of Suffolk County to arm themselves against the British
Militias • Civilians trained to fight in emergencies
Minutemen • Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minutes notice • Led by Captain John Parker
Concord • Town where Massachusetts minutemen stored arms (weapons) • British General Thomas Gage was ordered to take the Massachusetts militia’s weapons
“The regulars are out!” • Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams (both members of the Sons of Liberty) that the British were coming
Shot Heard Round the World • A line in a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem called “Concord Hymn” describing the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. • Later used in other parts of the world to describe the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand that began WWI
Concord’s North Bridge • Sight of the Battle of Concord in which minutemen repelled the British Army