Social Studies Chapter 6 section 1&2

British monarch who reigned or ruled during the American Revolution.

Act requiring the colonists to quarter (house) British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

Law placing a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.

Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.

Member of Virginia's House of Burgesses.

Secret society formed to oppose British policies.

To buy as an investment.

Refusal to buy.

British proclamation that forbade (not allowed) the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry who died at the Boston Massacre.

Incident in 1770  in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists.

Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the colonies.

Search warrants used to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.

Organization of colonial women formed to protest British policies.

Leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty

Organization formed to exchange information about British policies and American resistance.

Incident in 1773  colonists protested British policies by boarding British ships and throwing their cargoes on tea overboard.

Taxes placed on imported goods.

Lawyer who defended British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre.