Townsend Act

Writs of assistance

Quatering Acts

Crispus Attucks

Committee of Corespondence

Tea Act

Intolerable Acts

Quebec Act

1. Townsenend Act- was passed in 1767. Placed import duties on common welfare

 

2. Writs of assistance- general warrants that allowed officials to search for smuggled material within any suspected premises.

 

3. Quatering Acts- was an indirect tax for the colonists.

 

4. Crispus Attucks- Crispus Attucks was a slave. At the age of 27 he escaped and went to Boston

to work on the docks of the whaleships. He was a natural born leader. In

1770 the Boston Massacre started. The townspeople of Boston were having

a meeting about the British troops because they were out of control. A black

man, named Crispus Attucks, was the leader of the townspeople. The

townspeople were going against the British troops. The British troops were

arguing with the townspeople and told them to go home. The townspeople

refused to go home and they started fighting. The British troops shot and

killed five of the townspeople. Crispus Attucks was the first person to be shot

and killed. To honor Crispus Attucks and the four others killed in the Boston

Massacre, the black community of Boston built a memorial in the Boston

Commons.

5. Committee of correspondence- was not unknown to colonial legislatures.

 

6. tea act- in 1773 lowered the tea prices.

 

7. Intolerable act- passed by Britain to penalize the American colony of Massachusetts.

 

8. quebec act- wanted to make more effectual provision for the government of the province of quebec in North America-