2B - Colonial Resistance

A tax on paper goods that led to widespread protests and opposition from colonists, contributing to more tensions.

• Tea Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act

A group of American colonists who played a significant role in the push for Indpendence, protesing, boycotting, and leading other acts of resistance against British taxation and policies leading up to the American Revolution.

• Sons of Liberty
• Daughters of Liberty
• Continental Congress
• Patriots United

Agreements made by American colonists to collectively boycott or refuse to buy certain goods imported from Britain as a form of protest.

• Economic Treaties
• Colonial Pacts
• Trade Agreements
• Non-Importation Agreements

Groups formed by American colonists to share information, ideas, and grievances among different colonies. Helped unite the colonies and build support for the cause of independence.

• First Continental Congress
• Sons of Liberty
• Committees of Correspondence
• Continental Congress

A violent confrontation that happend in 1770 between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston. British troops fired on a crowd, killing several colonists.

• Boston Tea Party
• Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Boston Massacre

1773 protest in Boston where colonists dumped chests of tea into the harbor to protest the Tea Act.

• Tea Act Rebellion
• Colonial Tea Dumping
• Boston Harbor Incident
• Boston Tea Party

A series of harsh laws imposed by the British government on the American colonies in 1774 as a response to the Boston Tea Party. Punished Massachusetts and restricted self-governance.

• Intolerable Acts
• Quartering Act
• Salutary Acts

• Navigation Acts

A gathering of delegates from 12 American colonies in 1774 in response to British policies and the Intolerable Acts. Discussed grievances, advocated for colonial rights, and organized boycotts.

• Second Continental Congress
• Boston Tea Party
• Declaration of Independence
• First Continental Congress

A meeting of colonial representatives held in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. It managed the war effort appointed leaders like George Washington to lead the Continental Army, and ultimately declared the colonies' independence.

• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Congress of 1781
• First Continental Congress
• Colonial Assembly of 1776