The Road to War

Britain's law making assembly is

• Tariff

• Boycott

• Parliament

• Militia

Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 colonies.

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

To cancel

• repeal

• tariff

• boycott

• militia

Groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution

• Townshend Acts

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 colonies from Britain.

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

Tax on imported goods

• boycott

• repeal

• minutemen

• tariff

Organized refusal to buy goods

• boycott

• tariff

• repeal

• militia

Groups of American Women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods.

• Sons of Liberty

• Lady Liberties

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

Event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that surrounded them.

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Massacre

Groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British

• Committees of Correspondence

• Intolerable Acts

• Loyalsits

• Patriots