Unit 3 Review: Road to Revolution

American Revolutionary leader and patriot; organized the Committees of Correspondence; Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence

His belief in the importance of the rule of law led him to defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre; argued that they fired in self-defense

Member of the House of Burgesses and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies and taxation without representation.

Sailor of African and Native American descent; first to die in Boston Massacre

Required the colonists to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Passed by Parliament in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party; closed Boston Harbor until tea was paid for, stronger version of the Quartering Act, banned the Committees of Correspondence, and allowed British officers to be tried in England for crimes committed in colonies; British called them the Coercive Acts

Breaking the law as a form on non-violent protest

Refusal to buy goods as a form of protest

Ideas and information that are exaggerated and one sided; designed to convince and persuade

Engraving depicting the Boston Massacre created by Paul Revere; One of the most effective pieces of patriot propaganda leading to the Revolutionary war

Started with an argument between colonists and a British soldier; escalated to violence; five colonists were killed but called a "massacre" as anti-British propaganda

Law that taxed paper goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

Passed by Parliament in 1767, placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to outrage - protests and boycotts

Protest against the Tea Act in which Boston Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Amercans dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

Unlimited search warrants that allowed England to search colonists' ships and other private property to look for smuggled goods