Colonial Law

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Colonial Law Taxes
Colonial Rebellion
Revolutionary Icons
Early Revolutionary Battles Decisions
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Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in
the colonies even playing cards
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Stamp Act
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Lowered the tax on molasses but allowed British
officers to seize goods from smugglers without
going to court
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Sugar Act
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• Harsh laws intended to punish the people of
  Massachusetts for their resistance
• (particularly in the Boston Tea Party)

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Intolerable Acts

• aka the Coercive Acts

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Although the British repealed the Stamp Act,
they passed this act on the same day declaring
that they reserved the right to tax and make
decisions for the colonies in all cases
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Declaratory Acts
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Tax levied against imported goods, such as glass,
tea, paper, and lead.
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Townshend Acts
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Refusal to buy goods or services as an attempt to
show non-support for companys or groups
practices
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Boycott
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A skirmish that occurred in Boston that Paul
Revere used as propaganda to fire-up the
patriotism within the colonists.
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Boston Massacre

• aka- Bloody Massacre

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The shot heard round the world relates to the
actions of armed resistance among minutemen in
these Massachusetts's villages
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Lexington Concord
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At the 2nd Continental Congress this group was
created to help fight the British in a more
organized manner.
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The Continental Army
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The delegates at the 2nd Continental Congress
expressed the colonists desire for peace with
this symbolic document
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Olive Branch Petition
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Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense listing the
reasons why colonists should want to break all
governmental ties with Britain
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Thomas Paine
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This man persuaded the Virginia House of
Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act.
Also delivered the Give me Liberty or Give me
Death Speech.
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Patrick Henry
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Although he had some help, this man is given
credit for writing the writing the Declaration
of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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This icon wrote letters to her husband John
suggesting increased rights for women.
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Abigail Adams
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This icons effectiveness as coronel in the
French and Indian War made him a unanimous choice
as the commander of the Revolutionary War
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George Washington
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Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green
Mountain Boys seized this British Fort on Lake
Champlain in New York.
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Fort Ticonderoga
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The battle in which Coronel Prescott directs
militiamen not to shoot until they see the white
of the Redcoats eyes refers to this battle
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The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Official document that informed Britain that they
no longer looked out for the interests of their
colonies because they didnt consider the
colonists natural rights.
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Declaration of Independence
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Colonists who did not consider the unfair taxes a
good reason for rebellion
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Loyalists
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Colonists who wanted to fight for American
Independence from England
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Patriots
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A British customs officer would have to present
this to colonists in order to search their homes
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A writ of assistance
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Information designed to influence or persuade
opinion
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Propoganda
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organization that circulated writings about
colonists grievances against Britain
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Committees of Correspondence
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To cancel, overturn, or take away
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repeal
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Rag dolls of figures often designed to portray a
person or group of people
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effigy