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Is a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.

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An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists. It took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. The government in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, thereby undercutting American merchants. It was when one night colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ship and umped 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor.

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The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, that was designed to bail out the British East India Company. It allowed the company to sell tea directly yo the colonists and the colonists where against it.

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It was a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city. The troops fired on the mob and killed several people. Out of these conditions grew what has been called the Boston Massacre.

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The British government continued to search for ways to give tax to the American colonies. The Stamp Act of 1765 required colonists to pay for an official stamp when they brought papers. People who refused ended up in jail.

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The Committees of Correspondence was founded by Samuel Adams, each committee gt in touch with other towns and colonies. The members shared ideas and information about the new british laws and way to challenge them.

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He was a local leader in Boston. He believed that Parliament couldn't tax the colonies without their permissions. He agreed with Otis and their ideas became a slogan, "No Taxation without Representation."

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He was the Ottawa chief that tired to resist the British settlement was of Appalachians. He attacked them in 1763 and was put down in 1766.

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An intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It spread the idea that resona and logic could improve society and many colonists were influenced by this.

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It is a religious movement that went through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. During these "awakenings," a great many colonists found new meaning and new comfort in the religions of the day Many Americans experienced a "great awakening" in their religious lives.

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Is the passage to cross the Altica Ocean in a voyage from Africans. The slave trade brought millions of people to cross. The voyage was dangerous and took as long as three months.

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Is a pattern of colonial commerce where slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England and traded with New England. It was a system where good were traded among the Americans, Britain, and Africa.

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The English Bills of Rights was passes in 1689. It was after the parliament replaced the unpopular king James. It was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II.

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The town meetings were the center of the politics in New England where the people talked about decided on issues of local interest.