Honors US History 1

Minutemen

• The Massachusetts colonial militia who were ready to fight at a “minutes” notice.

• A coordinated act of not buying certain goods or shopping at specific stores. 

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with violent actions like the boston tea party.“Give me liberty, or give me death.”

• One of the intolerable acts that forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes. 

Boycott

•  A coordinated act of not buying certain goods or shopping at specific stores. 

•  A group of colonists who protest British taxes with violent actions like the boston tea party.

•  “Give me liberty, or give me death.”

• One of the intolerable acts that forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes. 

Sons of Liberty

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with violent actions like the boston tea party.

• “Give me liberty, or give me death.”

• One of the intolerable acts that forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes. 

• The colonists who hated paying British taxes.  

Patrick Henry

• “Give me liberty, or give me death.”

• One of the intolerable acts that forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes. 

• The colonists who hated paying British taxes.  

• A British tax on any printed material.

The Quartering Act

• One of the intolerable acts that forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes. 

•  The colonists who hated paying British taxes

• A British tax on any printed material.

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with non-violent actions. 

Patriots

• The colonists who hated paying British taxes.

•  A British tax on any printed material. 

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with non-violent actions. 

• A group of colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain and did not want independence.

The Stamp Act

•  A British tax on any printed material.

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with non-violent actions. 

•  A group of colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain and did not want independence.

• An unorganized and unpaid colonial army. 

Daughters of Liberty

• A group of colonists who protest British taxes with non-violent actions. 

•  A group of colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain and did not want independence.           

• An unorganized and unpaid colonial army. 

• One of the founders and leaders of the Sons of Liberty.

Loyalists

•  A group of colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain and did not want independence.

• An unorganized and unpaid colonial army. 

• One of the founders and leaders of the Sons of Liberty.

• To secretly bring a controlled product to a country to avoid paying taxes on it. 

Militia

• An unorganized and unpaid colonial army. 

• One of the founders and leaders of the Sons of Liberty.

• To secretly bring a controlled product to a country to avoid paying taxes on it.

• The British policy that allowed the colonies to govern themselves until 1763.