Chapter 5Grade 7

Mr. Wenz

Taxation Without RepresentationSection 1

British government prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains. Forcing colonists to buy British goods and allowing for British

domination of the fur trade.

Prohibited

Due to the large cost of the French and Indian war, the British needed new sources of revenue to pay for expenses.

Revenue

Allowed the British to hold trials for those accused of smuggling, also allowed British to enter any location to search for smuggled goods.

KNOW YOUR BILL OF RIGHTS4th Amendment: Protection from illegal search and seizure

Writs of Assistance

The British lowered the taxes on sugar and molasses but also made it legal for British officers seize smuggled goods to be resold.

Sugar Act

The British began taxing anything printed including stamps, newspapers and wills. Any printed item had to be stamped with a British Emblem, the stamp

was sold to printers after a tax was paid.

The Stamp Act

Rag figures that were burned symbolically in protest to taxes.Effigy

An agreement not to buy a certain product as a peaceful protest. In our case the colonists boycotted British goods in order to limit taxes paid.

Boycott

Building Colonial UnitySection 2

This gentleman, was killed in the Boston Massacre. He is considered by many to be the first real American to be killed by British Troops.

Crispus Attucks

To stay and control a place or people.In our case the British troops were occupying the colonies.

See also: 3rd Amendment: The Government may not quarter troops in your home without permission.

Occupy

Boston MassacreAn event in which five colonists were killed by British troops while protesting. Colonists used this event as PROPOGANDA to inspire people to join their cause against the British.

Sam Adams/Committee of CorrespondenceSamuel Adams (yes, that Samuel Adams) organized a group called the Committee of Correspondence to air grievances to the British government.

The British East India Company, a government run trading network, was allowed to sell their tea freely to shopkeepers. Skipping taxes, colonist shippers and giving the company a

monopoly on tea sale in the colonies.

Tea Act

To show resistance to British laws, colonists, dressed as Native Americans boarded ships of the British East India Co and dumped the tea into the

Boston Harbor.The event was performed by Sam Adams’ “Sons of Liberty”

Boston Tea Party

Acts imposed by King George III to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Boston harbor was closed, meetings of groups

were prohibited and troops were quartered in peoples’ homes.

Coercive Acts

Section 3A Call to Arms

A meeting of colonial leaders which decided to boycott all British goods, and ban on sale of goods to Britain. It declared that laws passed by the British were in violation of their own

constitution.

Continental Congress

A militia is a group of everyday people who train to defend their land, an army of citizens. Groups of these individuals in

Massachusetts called themselves “minutemen” because they claimed that they could be ready to fight in a minute of less.

Minutemen/Militia

A member of the Sons of Liberty, Paul Revere is well known for warning colonists that the British were getting ready to attack on

his famous “Midnight Ride”

Paul Revere

The First Battle of the revolutionary war. The British first kill eight colonists, after retreating, the colonists ambushed

British soldiers, killing 73 redcoats.

Lexington and Concorde

A revolutionary war battle in which the British defeated the colonists after suffering serious loses. The colonists were forced to

retreat after running out of ammunition.“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Bunker Hill

Colonists who stayed “loyal” or sided with the British during the American Revolution.

Loyalists

Colonists who sought independence from the British Empire. Today, the Patriots are remembered as heroes, Massachusetts

football fans root for the New England Patriots.

Patriots