This caused a lot of debt for Britain.

Taxed coffee, molasses, & more; Britain needed help to pay its war debt

Paper documents like newspapers & playing cards needed a symbol that the tax had been paid

All colonial governments had to give food/lodging to British troops

the British-owned East India Company sold tea to colonists; colonial tea merchants lost $$$ since they couldn't sell tea

the colonists needed to pay their fair share of money to help run the British government

Parliament was threatening their rights

economic effect of Britain's laws (like the Tea Act) on the colonies

an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies

group created in 1765 in each colony to protest the Stamp Act; started in Boston; sometimes tarred & feathered tax collectors

a group that supported the boycott of British trade by making their own clothes; a non-violent form of resistance

An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.

American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, boarded three British ships and dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.

September 1774, delegates from twelve colonies (all but Georgia) sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts

colonial delegates who met in 1775 & appointed George Washington as leader of Continental Army

1st example of a unified colonial government

a peaceful way that the colonists organized against Britain

a more destructive way the colonists organized vs. Great Britain

The British Parliament closed Boston Harbor & passed a new Quartering Act in order to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

why Britain didn't pay much attention to the colonies at first- 2 reasons

why settlers in the colonies had to form their own governments

the name of the British king before & during the Revolutionary War

The colonists reacted to British actions in which of the following ways? 3 answers

TRUE or FALSE- When the colonists first started getting aggravated by Britain their responses were violent.

According to what we studied, the tension between the colonies & Britain. . .

To protest against British actions, one thing the colonists did was

Parliament represented the whole country was a view of

Only colonial legislatures could make tax laws was a view of