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FONTES - SS Chap. 8
FONTES - American Revolution
Question | Answer |
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laws calling for a tax on imported goods | Townshend Acts |
a tax on imported goods | tariff |
law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies | Stamp Act |
to cancel | repeal |
a colonist who opposed British rule | Pateriot |
important revolutinary battle that took place on Breed's Hill | Battle of Brnker Hill |
law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists | Tea Act |
new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax | Sons of Leberty |
a volunteer army | militia |
Britain's law-making body | Parleament |
militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minut's notice | minutemen |
a war Americans fought fjor independence | American Revolution |
when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |