Road to Revolution Key Terms

A tax on tea designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy.

• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Quartering Act
• Townshend Act

Written by John Dickenson, submitted to King George in an attempt to assert the colonists rights while remaining loyal to the British crown. 

• Intolerable Acts
• Olive Branch Petition
• Massachusetts Government Act

A tax passed in 1765, requiring all American colonists to pay a tax on all paper products purchased.

• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Triangular Trade
• Olive Branch Petition

A series of laws enacted in 1774, in response to the Boston Tea Party. The colonists called them the Coercive Acts.

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Massachusetts Government Act

Name given to the British Army. Named so because of the color of their coats.

• Green Coats
• Blue Coats
• Red Coats
• Gray Coats

Trade of slaves, cash crops, and other goods between West Africa, the colonies, and Europe.

• Boycott
• Sons of Liberty
• Loyalists
• Triangular Trade

Those who were against the British and wanted independence during the Revolutionary War.

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Sons of Liberty

An act requiring British soldiers to be housed in American barracks and public houses.

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Navigation Acts

Name given to those who remain loyal to the British crown during the Revolution.

• Loyalists
• Patriots

A series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies

• Boycott
• Triangular Trade
• Parliament
• Navigation Acts