Spirit of Independence

Intolerable Acts

• what the colonists called the Coercive Acts

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Quartering Act

Meant to punish the Colonists for resisting British Authority- forced colonists to allow soldiers to live in their homes, banned town meetings and closed Boston Harbor.

• Sons of Liberty

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

• Boycott

Boston Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Tar and Feathering

• Boston Marathon

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

Gave the British East India Tea Company control of the tea market

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

What did parliament do after the the Boston Massacre

• repeal the Townshend Acts - except for molasses

• repeal the Townshend Acts - except for soldiers in homes

• repeal the Townshend Acts - except for boycotting

• repeal the Townshend Acts - except on tea

Organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies

• Committee of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Writs of Assistance

• Daughters of Liberty

to disregard or go against

• repeal

• boycott

• violate

• revenue

To cancel an act or law

• repeal

• revenue

• boycott

• violate

This act taxed import goods- tax was paid when the goods arrived, before they were brought inside the colonies.

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

Boycott

• taxed newspapers, wills and even playing cards

• to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval

• a mocking figure representing an unpopular individual

• incoming money from taxes