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| A law passed in 1765 in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America; required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards to be printed on special stamped and taxed paper; when you by a piece of paper with a stamp with all kinds of documents and papers; Parliament repealed before it took effect |
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| A meeting on October 19, 1765 in New York City of representatives from among the Thirteen Colonies; wrote the Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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| The Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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| English Bill of Rights; written by the Stamp Act Congress; no taxation without representation; created during the Committees of Correspondence declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. |
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| An American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; formed the Sons of Liberty |
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| A political group made up of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists from the usurpations by the British government after 1766; dressed as Indian Mohawkes and throw ten overboard’s on the ship |
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| Full power to make any laws; a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face |
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| Started by Charles Townshend; act of putting tax on tea, glass, lead and paint; a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America |
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| A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed |
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| An early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China. |
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| The act that lowered tea and got monopoly over Indian trade |
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| the dumping of 15,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act; The only tea that can go to America can only come from East India |
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| Designed to punish Boston; a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
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| The First Continental Congress |
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| A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. |
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| Minutemen, Lexington, Concord |
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| Among the first people to fight in the American Revolution. Their teams constituted about a quarter of the entire militia. Generally younger and more mobile, they served as part of a network for early response. Sons of Liberty member Paul Revere was among those who spread the news that the British Regulars (soldiers) were coming out from Boston. Revere was captured before completing his mission when the British marched toward the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to confiscate the weapons that were stored there |
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