EL#2 Vocabulary Review

Sam Adams

• local leader in Boston whose ideas inspired the slogan "No taxation without representation"
• Colonial leader who enforced the collection of taxes in the colonies
• was loyal to Great Britain

Proclamation of 1763

• encouraged colonial expansion west of the Rocky Mountains
• Granted land to colonists who fought in the French and Indian War
• Prevented colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains

Stamp Act

• required colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal, when they bought paper items
• required the colonists to pay a tax for glass, lead, paints paper, and tea
• required colonists to purchase a protection plan for their products

Boston Massacre

• Moment of tension between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in British soldiers being shot by colonists
• Small riot where British soldiers fired into a group of angry colonists who were harassing them and throwing snowballs
• Food shortages throughout Boston

Intolerable Acts

• taxes on paper products
• New taxes on tea
• Acts that punished the city of Boston for colonists actions during the Boston Tea Party

Sons of Liberty

• Protest group who opposed British policies in the colonies, and were violent if necessary
• Protested the actions of colonists against British soldiers
• angry colonists who wanted to make a new brand of tea

Committees of Correspondence

• System to re-capture escaped slaves
• System developed by Sam Adams for the colonies to share ideas on how to resist British laws
• Mail delivery system in the 13 Colonies

Boycott

• refusal to buy
• movement designed to increase the British economy
• Part of the British Military uniform

Boston Tea Party

• British troops protest the introduction of new tea in the colonies
• An act of protest where the Sons of Liberty dumped 92,000 pounds of British tea into Boston Harbor
• Boston's annual tea leaf festival

1st Continental Congress

• 1st meeting of Colonial Delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the growing tension with Great Britain
• Meeting where George Washington took command of the Army
• 1st meeting with British authorities about colonist uprisings