British Acts and Unit 3 Academic Vocab

Set aside lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native Americans

Increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies, specifically molasses and sugar

Required colonists to provide Barracks and supplies to British troops

Taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, and playing cards; stamps affixed to documents showed the tax was paid

Initiated taxes of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

The colonists were forced to buy tea from the East India Company at a higher tax

Closed Boston Harbor to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party

Patriots; protested Acts, leader was Sam Adams

group of citizens began harassing British soldiers, British opened fire - killing 5; Propaganda - became symbol of British oppression

Met in Philadelphia; discuss grievance against England; made a list and submitted it to the King

Taxes on colonists without representation in Parliment

to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest

The colonies provide raw materials to the Mother Country and the Mother Country sells manufactured goods back to the colonies

to influence in a particular, typically unfair direciton

a complaint (based on a circumstance)