Road to Revolution Vocabulary Review

British law that forbade American colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains in the Ohio River Valley.

• Tea Act

• Proclamation Line

• Intolerable Act

• Writs of Assistance

British law that put a tax on legal documents such as newspapers, playing cards and dice.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Acts

• Olive Branch Petition

A refusal to buy goods or services.

• Boycott

• Repeal

• Forbade

• Ratify

To cancel

• Consent

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Repeal

To not allow

• Ratify

• Boycott

• Forbade

• Propaganda

A British law that taxed imported goods such as paint, glass, paper and tea.

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

Promise of colonial merchants to stop importing goods taxed by the Townshend Acts

• Nonimportation agreements

• Proclamation Line

• Committee of Correspondence

• Intolerable Acts

The shooting of five Bostonians by British soldiers on March 5th, 1770.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Committee of Correspondence

• Writs of Assistance

Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists without paying a tax.

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

Protest in which Bostonians, dressed as Native Americans, dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Olive Branch Petition

• Writs of Assistance

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre