American Revolution Flashcards

Front

Intolerable Acts

Back

Harsh laws passed by Parliament in 1774

Front

Parliament

Back

Britain's law-making assembly

Front

Sons of Liberty

Back

A secret group of colonists who protested British laws and taxes

Front

Stamp Act

Back

A tax Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents

Front

Tea Act

Back

Granted that only the East India Company could sell tea in America

Front

Tax

Back

Money that a government collects from its citizens

Front

Treason

Back

Betrayal of one's country by plotting to overthrow the government

Front

Tyranny

Back

A government in which a single person ruled absolutely in a cruel way