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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King George III | the British Monarch |
| Quartering Act | a law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers |
| Sugar Act | a law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies, also called for harsh punishment of smugglers |
| Stamp Act | 1765 law passed Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid. |
| Patrick Henry | a member of the Virginia's House of Burgess called for resistance to the tax |
| boycott | a refusal to buy certain goods |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution |
| Townshend Acts | a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and estblished taxes on goods brought into the British colonies |
| writs of assistance | a search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods. |
| Samuel Adams | protest and a leader of the Boston Son of Liberty |
| Boston massacre | a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, which 5 of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed |
| committee of correspondence | a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs |
| Boston tea party | the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| Itolerable Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliment 1774 in punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Paul Reverse | a Boston silversmith, and a second messenger |
| Lexington and Concord | sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of American Revolution |
| loyalists | an Anerican colonists who supported the British in the American Revolution |
| patriots | an American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution |
| Second Continental Congress | a governing body whose delegates agreed, in May 1779, to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence |
| Benedict Arnold | officer who had played a role in the victory as Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | the document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from British |
| Thomas Jefferson | composed the Declaration, he was a excellent writer and that he came from Virginia |
| First Continental Congress | a meeting of delegates in 1774, from all the colonies except Georgia to up hold colonial rights |
| Thomas Paine | he invented common seen and the american crisis |
| Tea Act | an act of the British Parliament (1773) that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the boston tea party. |
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