Road to Independence

To refuse to buy goods from a certain source

• Boycott

• Tyranny

• Militia

• Townshend Acts

This act required colonists to house and feed British Troops

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

This act required colonists to buy a stamp each time they registered a legal document, bought newspapers, pamphlets, and almanacs.

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

Tax on British goods such as paint, glass, lead, paper, and tea.

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• Proclamation of 1763

British tax on American imports of only tea

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Boycott

Series of Acts designed to punish Colonists for the Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Acts

• Martial Law

• Intolerable Acts

• Tyranny

Delegates meet to discuss Intolerable acts and boycott British trade

• 1st Continental Congress

• 2nd Continental Congress

Delegates meet to declare American independence from Great Britain

• 1st Continental Congress

• 2nd Continental Congress

Grievences

• Another word for complaint
• Another word for charter
• Freedoms you are born with

What was Thomas Paine's opinion about the colonies and Great Britain?

• The colonies should break away from British rule

• The colonies should continue to be taxed by Britain

• The colonies should remain under British rule

• The colonies should stop fighting the British