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| Prohibited colonistss from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to prevent conflicts with Indians; angered colonists; thousands moved westward |
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| AKA Revenue Act of 1764; placed duties on sugar and luxurie items; increased enforcement of Navigation Acts; accused tried in crown appointed admiralty courts without juries |
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| Required colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers stationed in the colonies |
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| Required revenue stamps be printed on colonial paper (legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, advertisements); paid by people instead of merchants; repealed in 1766 |
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| Virginia lawyer; demanded that British government recognize their rights (no taxation without anticipation) |
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| Held by James Otis (Massachusetts) in New York in 1765; representatives from the nine colonies resolved that only elected representatives could approve taxes |
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| Sons and Daughters of Liberty |
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| A secret society organized to intimidate tax agents; tared and feathered revenue officials and destroyed revenue stamps; organized boycotts on British imports |
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| Asserted that Parliment had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies in all cases |
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| Duties collected on colonial imports of tea, glass, and paper; used tax revenues to pay crown officials; allowed search of homes for smuggled goods; suspended New York's assembly for defying the Quartering Act |
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| A general liscense to search anywhere that replaced search warants, and didn't need a judge |
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| Leader in Pennsylvania, who wrote "Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania"; argued against Townshend Acts |
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| Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania |
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| A book agreeing that Parliament could regulate commerce, but argued that duties, a form of taxation, couldn't be levied without the consent of their representative assemblies, in accordance with British law |
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| Leader in Massachusetts; opposed duties levied without representation; revolutionary radical |
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| Leader in Massachusetts; forcefully opposed duties |
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| Massachusetts Circular Letter |
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| Written in 1768 by James Otis and Samuel Adams; urged colonies to petition Parliament to repeal Townshend Acts; British threatened to close Boston legislature, posted troops in Boston; caused boycotts, and increased smuggling |
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| Prime Minister of England; repealed Townshend Acts in 1770 except for tax on tea; ended colonial boycott |
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| Crowd of colonists harassed Customs House guards; Guards fired into crowd, killing five; aquitted from charge of murder; defended by John Adams |
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| An African American who was killed during the Boston Massacre |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Organized by Samuel Adams in 1772; regularly exchanged letters about potentially dangerous British activities in Massachusetts; expanded by House of Burgesses in 1773 to be intercolonial |
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| In 1772, colonists disguised as Indians ordered the crew off the ship and set it aflame when it ran ashore in Rhode Island |
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| Made price of British East India Trading Company's tea less than that of Dutch tea; colonists refused to buy tea and accept tax |
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| Shipment of 342 chests of East India Company's Tea, waiting in Boston Harbor, that was dumped overboard by colonists disguised as Native Americans; approved by some colonists; too radical for others |
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| Retalitory acts passed by Parliament in reponse to the Boston Tea Party; Coercive Acts, and Quebec Act |
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