Key Terms: Road to the Revolution
Boycott
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
Loyalists
Massachusetts Government Act
Navigation Acts
Olive Branch Petition
Parliament
Patriots
Quartering Act
Redcoats
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Townshend Act
Triangular Trade
Match the words to the following definitons. They must be completely written out in your notebook.
***Also known as the Intolerable Acts in America, these included the Boston Port Act, Quartering Act,
Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act.
***Written by John Dickinson, submitted to King George in an attempt to assert the rights of the
colonists while remaining loyal to the British crown. King George refused to read it.
***To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting.
***Passed by Parliament, giving the (royally appointed) governor of Massachusetts wide-ranging powers.
***Those who were against the British and wanted independence during the Revolutionary War.
***The legislature of a democratic government.
***A tax passed in 1765, requiring all American colonists to pay a tax on all paper products purchased.
***A series of four acts passed by Parliament to assert its authority over the colonists, and allowed for the extra collection of taxes.
***A tax on tea designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy. -
***Trade of slaves, cash crops, and other goods between West Africa, the colonies, and Europe.
***Series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies.
***An underground group of colonists who began forming to defend the rights of colonists.
***Series of laws enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The Parliament called them the Coercive Acts.
***Name given to those who remain loyal to the British crown during the Revolution.
***An act that required British soldiers to be housed in American barracks and public houses.
***Name given to the British army. named so because of the color of their coats. -
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
Loyalists
Massachusetts Government Act
Navigation Acts
Olive Branch Petition
Parliament
Patriots
Quartering Act
Redcoats
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Townshend Act
Triangular Trade
Match the words to the following definitons. They must be completely written out in your notebook.
***Also known as the Intolerable Acts in America, these included the Boston Port Act, Quartering Act,
Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act.
***Written by John Dickinson, submitted to King George in an attempt to assert the rights of the
colonists while remaining loyal to the British crown. King George refused to read it.
***To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting.
***Passed by Parliament, giving the (royally appointed) governor of Massachusetts wide-ranging powers.
***Those who were against the British and wanted independence during the Revolutionary War.
***The legislature of a democratic government.
***A tax passed in 1765, requiring all American colonists to pay a tax on all paper products purchased.
***A series of four acts passed by Parliament to assert its authority over the colonists, and allowed for the extra collection of taxes.
***A tax on tea designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy. -
***Trade of slaves, cash crops, and other goods between West Africa, the colonies, and Europe.
***Series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies.
***An underground group of colonists who began forming to defend the rights of colonists.
***Series of laws enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The Parliament called them the Coercive Acts.
***Name given to those who remain loyal to the British crown during the Revolution.
***An act that required British soldiers to be housed in American barracks and public houses.
***Name given to the British army. named so because of the color of their coats. -