Chapter 5. Vocab

An organization used in earlier protests. They organized greivences throughout the party

After one soldier was knocked down the nervous redcoats did fire killing 5 colonists

It allowed the company a virtual monopoly or sole control of the trade for tes in America. East Indian Company

When a group of men dressed as Mowhawks boarded the ship at midnight and threw 342 chests of tea overboard

Harsh laws made to punish the people of Massachusets for their resistence to British law

Established a political body to repersent American intersests and challenge Britishcontrol. Consisted of 55 deligates from the colonies

Second president of the US and first Vice Preseident, an American founding father

An attorney who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770's

Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they where ready to fight on a moments notice

Legal document that enable officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled

Rag Figures

Refuse to buy something

A law that placed a tax on almost all printed material

Pledges not to buy or use goods imported from Britian

It set the Appalation Mountains as the temporary western boundary for the colonies

The cousin of John Adamas he was an American statesman, political philosophere, and one of the Founding Fathers

He had to confisscate weapons from the colonists

It was the first colonial victory and the first battle of The War of Independance

A British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Make laws against smuggling