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Ch6 SS Vocab
Question | Answer |
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The British monarch wanted to enforce the proclamation, so he passed the acts. | King George III |
Required colonists to house & feed British soldiers | Quartering Acts |
Income | Revenue |
Law that made sugar, molasses, & other stuff shipped taxed | Sugar Act |
Required all legal & illegal documents carrying a stamp showing they’ve been taxed | Stamp Act |
Member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses who started the protest for the Stamp Act | Patrick Henry |
Refusal to buy | Boycott |
Lawyers, merchants, & craftspeople that made a secret society against the Stamp Act | Sons of Liberty |
Suspended New York’s assembly & made sure goods were taxed | Townshend Acts |
Search warrants | Writs of Assistance |
Leader of Sons of Liberty that protested against the Townshend Acts | Samuel Adams |
A mini-battle between British soldiers & Boston colonists where 5 colonists, including Crispus Attucks, died | Boston Massacre |
Lawyer that defended the soldiers & was the cousin of Samuel Adams | John Adams |
Groups that exchanged letters about the colonial affairs | Committees of Correspondence |
When Boston colonists came aboard a British ship filled with tea & dumped the tea overboard | Boston Tea Party |
Force of armed civilians | Militia |
Militia that was to be ready to act in one minute | Minutemen |
Laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
Meeting where delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until they took back the Intolerable Acts | First Continental Congress |
Boston silversmith that rode out at midnight to warn John Hancock & Samuel Adams that the British were coming | Paul Revere |
First battles of the Revolutionary War | Lexington & Concord |
Supported Britain | Loyalists |
Rebelled against Britain | Patriots |
Leader of the Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
Cannon & large guns | Artillery |
Meeting where the delegates decided to form an army | Second Continental Congress |
America’s army | Continental Army |
Part of the plan to invade Quebec & helped with the victory at Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
Piece of writing declaring America’s independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
Delegate from Virginia that wrote the Declaration | Thomas Jefferson |