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ch 6 vocab!
Question | Answer |
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A cost saveing act that required the colonists to house british solders | quartering act |
the british monarch that wanted to enforce the proclamation and keep peace with the native american allies | King George III |
Another word for income | revenue |
A tax on all sugar and molasses and other products shipped to the colonies | sugar acts |
an act placed on all paper products that greatly affected all colonists | stamp acts |
a member of the virginia house of burgesses who fought for taxation with repersentaition | Patrick Henry |
a refusal to buy | boycott |
a group of lawyers from the colonies that rebeled against britain | sons of liberty |
an african american who greatly influenced the rebels | Cripus Attucks |
a group of laws that angered the colonists such as suspending new yorks assembly | townshend acts |
search warents issued by the government | writs of assistance |
a american patriot who helped influence the revolution | Samuel Adams |
a shooting of 5 patriotsin the boston square by british soldiers | boston massacre |
a lawyer who took the british soldiers side on the law suit of the boston massicre | John Adams |
a group that exchanged letters about the colonial affairs | committee of correspondance |
a rebelion where patriots dressed as native americans and attacked merchant ships and destroyed all the tea | boston tea party |
a army of volenteer farmers | militia |
special militia men trained to be ready "on a minutes notice" | minutemen |
a group of cruel laws enforced after the boston tea party | intolerable acts |
a group of delegates from 12 colonies met to discuss a break from britian | first continental congress |
a patriot spy who alerted the patriots of the british attack | Paul Revere |
the first battles of the revolution | lexington and concord |
someone who was loyal to britain | loyalist |
a rebel wo supported america | patriot |
the leader of the green mountain boys | Ethan Allen |
heavy cannon and guns | artillery |
another meeting to discuss the revolutionary war | second continental congress |
an army led by george washington that had patriot men from every colony | continental army |
an american general who betrayed the patriots and became a loyalist | Benedict Arnold |
a document that declared americas independance | declaration of independance |
the author of the declaration of independance | Thomas Jefferson |