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| 1765 - imposed duties on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice |
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| 1767 - retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. closed port of Boston, limited town meetings to once a year, quartering troops in homes, British officials would be tried in Canada or Britain |
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| 1774 set up a government for Canada, extended the borders of Quebec, and established protection for rights of French Catholics |
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| To protect Indian lands in the west, settlement west of the Appalachians was forbidden. 10,000 British troops sent to enforce. |
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| 1767 taxed goods such as glass, papers, paint, lead, and tea; named for official in change of the British treasury; It taxed goods and gave new powers with writs of assistance to stop smuggling |
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| Boston leader who had been a failure in business, was a poor public speaker, but talented in organizing people for protests and stirring public support. |
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| Boston leader who was a school teacher that became a lawyer; weighed evidence before taking action. |
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| wrote plays that made fun of British officials; writing spurred colonists to action |
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| helped organize colonial resistance through writing |
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| Member of the Virgina House of Burgesses whose fiery speeches moved listeners to both tears and anger |
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| member of the British Parliament who called British officials cowards for not taxing the colonists in America |
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| British general who planned a surprise attack on Concord to seize weapons |
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| 70 Minutemen were waiting for the British; 8 colonists killed; "shot heard round the world" |
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| on bridge outside of town 300 Minutemen forced a British retreat. British lost 73 and another 200 wounded or missing. |
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| start of the American Revolution |
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| High cost of the French and Indian War |
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| reason for Parliament gave for raising colonial taxes after 1763 |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| 1774 delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia; agreed to boycott British goods and stop exporting to Britain; they advised colonies to set up militias |
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| an army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
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| committee of correspondence |
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| members regularly wrote letters and pamphlets, reporting to other colonies on events in Massachusetts |
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