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GA CHAPT 5
Georgia History Grade 8
Question | Answer |
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Apprentice | Somewho learns a particular skill from a master craftsman |
Puritans | Followers of a Christian Church who broke away from the Church of England |
Parish | Political and religious boundary |
Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged colonists to leave England |
Proprietary colony | Governed by a set of trustees. 1732-1752 for GA |
Royal colony | Governed by a Royal Governor who is appointed by the king |
French and Indian War | War that took place between England and France from 1754 to 1763 |
Palisades | A fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense. |
Cracker | Undesirable people. |
Independence | Political or Economical Freedom |
Sugar Act | a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. |
Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with in |
Liberty Boys | Patriots who opposed the Stamp Act. |
Townshend Act | Placed import taxes on tea, paper, glass, and colouring for paint.1767 |
Quartering Act | All British citizens had to house British soldiers at their own expense. |
Second Continental Congress | Held in Philadelphia, petitioned King George III, asking for no unfriendly steps toward the colonies. |
Declaration of Independence | The document in which the United States of America, declared their independence from Great Britain |
Liberty | Freedom |
Ratified | Approved |
Articles of Confederation | 1st Constitution of the United States |
Seige | the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible. |
Treaty of Paris | Ended the Revolutionary War |