COLONISTS SPEAK OUT

To have someone speak or act for you

• REPRESENTATION

• TREASON

• BUDGET

• PARLIAMENT

Treason

• a formal meeting of government representatives

• to cancel, or undo a law

• The act of working against one’s own government

• laws and orders issued by the British Government

Congress

• a formal meeting of government representatives

• to work against, or object to, a certain policy

• The act of working against one’s own government

• to refuse to buy or use goods or services

To refuse to buy or use goods or services

• Treason

• Boycott

• Budget

• Imperial Policy

Repeal

• laws and orders issued by the British Government

• a formal meeting of government representatives

• to work against, or object to, a certain policy

• to cancel, or undo a law

Imperial Policy

• to work against, or object to, a certain policy

• laws and orders issued by the British Government

• to refuse to buy or use goods or services

• The act of working against one’s own government

To work against, or object to, a certain policy

• Imperial Policy

• Proclamation

• Protest

• Congress

A tax imposed on paper items

• STAMP ACT

• BOSTON MASSACRE

• CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

• COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE

Why did many colonists believed they should’t be taxed?

• BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED IT WAS NOT FAIR TO PAY FOR THE WAR

• BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT BRITAIN COULD NOT TAX THEM, BECAUSE THEY HAD NO REPRESENTATION IN THE PARLIAMENT

• BECAUSE A FEW PEOPLE WERE REPRESENTING THEM IN THE CONGRESS

• BECAUSE THEY HAD REPRESENTATION IN THE PARLIAMENT

Who started writing plays about the events?

• SAMUEL ADAMS

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• PATRICK HENRY

• MERCY OTIS WARREN