Week 11 Vocab: English Policies & Colonial Concerns

Complaints against King George III

• Colonial Grievances

• Individual Rights

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

This law required colonists to put government stamps on all court documents, licenses, newspapers, and other documents.

• Declaratory Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Quartering Act

required the colonists to feed and house some of  the British troops in their barns and homes.

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Quartering Act

• Declaratory Act

This act placed a tax on tea brought from India to the colonies

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Act

• Declaratory Act

• Tea Act

This act stated that  Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies, including taxes.

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Act

• Declaratory Act

These laws placed new taxes on glass and other household goods in the colonies.

• Townshend Act

• Declaratory Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

closed Boston Harbor, suspended (temporarily dissolved) the colonial legislature of Massachusetts, and allowed judges instead of juries to try cases.

• Declaratory Act

• Intolerable Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Act

Freedom

• Tyranny

• Oppression

• Boycott

• Liberty

cruel and oppressive government

• Liberty

• Boycott

• Tyranny

• Oppression

Unjust Treatment or control    

• Tyranny

• Oppression

• Individual Rights

• Boycott