Road to Revolution Vocabulary - Part One

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Law that required colonists to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

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Quartering Act

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Law that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other goods shipped to the colonies.

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Sugar Act

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Law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

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Stamp Act

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A refusal to buy or use goods or services.

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boycott

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A secret society created to oppose British policies. Staged protests and riots in cities across the colonies.

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Sons of Liberty

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Colonists who supported the British.

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Loyalists

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Colonists who supported the idea of independence.

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Patriots

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Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the Stamp Act.

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Patrick Henry

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A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies.

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Townshend Acts

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Search warrants used by British soldiers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.

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Writs of Assistance