Module 4 Lesson 1-3 Key Terms and People

Samuel Adams

• colonist who chose to fight for independence

• helped to edit the Declaration of Independence

• No taxation without Representation

Stamp Act of 1765

• tax paid on legal documents, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards

• continue to boycott but prepare for war

• destruction of 340 chests of tea

Committees of Correspondence

• continue to boycott but prepare for war

• plain spoken argument against British rule

• members shared ideas about the British laws and how to challenge them

propaganda

• a moral victory

• a story giving only one side of an argument

• shared ideas of how to challenge the new laws

Sons of Liberty

• soldiers from all colonies and would fight against the British

• secret society formed during the Stamp Act

• secret society formed during the Townshend Act

Redcoats

• bright red jackets

• militia ready to fight

• soldiers from all colonies

Boston Massacre

• a story giving only one side of an argument

• created to punish Boston

• shooting of five boston citizens

Common Sense

• continue to boycott but prepare for war

• "No taxation without Representation"

• plain spoken argument against British rule

First Continental Congress

• continue to boycott but prepare for war

• colonist who chose to fight for independence

• members shared ideas about the British laws and how to challenge them

Boston Tea Party

• a moral victory

• destruction of 340 chests of tea

• shooting of five Boston citizens