Road to Revolution

What is the Sugar Act?

• Tax on molasses

• Tax on sugar

• Tax on trees

What is the Townshend Act?

• Tax on sugar

• Tax on houses

• Tax on lead, paper, paint and TEA

What is the Quartering Act?

• Tax on Quarters

• An act that allows the colonists to buy quarters

• Colonists had to provide food/shelter for British soldiers

What is the Writs of Assistance?

• Allows basic rights

• Assistance given to poor soldiers

• British soldiers can search colonial ships without reason.

What was the Boston Tea Party all about?

• Men dressed as natives & dumped tea into Boston Harbor

• Boston had a party and drank tea

• Tea was not allowed to be sold anymore

What happened during the Boston Massacre?

• Gunshots were fired and colonists shot 5 soldiers

• Everyone is Boston was killed

• Gunshots were fired and 5 colonists were killed

What is Propaganda?

• Supporting what the King says

• Newspaper articles

• False or misleading info that is spread to further a cause

What does it mean to Boycott?

• the refusal to talk to soldiers

• The refusal to buy goods

• The refusal to go to bed

Which war was the cause of Britain taxing the colonists?

• Civil War

• Spanish American War

• French and Indian War

The Proclamation of 1763

• Limited imports to America

• limited where the colonist can travel to

• limited the tax on sugar