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ch 6 vocab js
Question | Answer |
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king george 3 | british monarch |
quatering act | colonies had to let soliders stay and provide them with supplies |
revenue | to meet its expenses |
sugar act | this placed tax on sugar, molasses and other productsshipped to the colonies |
stamp act | this required all legal and commerical doucments to carry a stamp |
patrick henery | a member of virgina's house of burgesses |
boycott | a refusal to buy goods |
sons of liberty | secret societies to oppose british policies |
cripus attucks | a slave who escaped and went out to sea and was killed in the boton massacre |
townshed act | suspended new yorkers assembly until they agreed to let soliders in their homes |
writs of assistance | searc warrants |
sameul adams | a leader of the boston sons of liberty |
boston masscre | where attuck and 4 other people where killed |
john adams | lawyer and cousin of sameul adams |
committiees of correspondence | sameul adams started a drive for the cause of liberty |
boston tea party | where colonists dumped tea into the docks |
militia | a force of armed civilivians |
minutemen | people ready to act in minutes |
intorable acts | a seris of laws to punnish massachusetts |
first continental congress | delgates voted to ban all trade with britian until the intorable act were repelled |
pual revere | a boston sliversmith, and a 2 messanger |
lexington and concord | were the 1st battles of the revolutionary war |
loyalist | those who supported britian |
patriots | thse who sided with the rebels |
ethan allen | led the green mountain boys |
artillery | big guns and cannons |
2nd continental congress | a meeting in philadelphia |
contintental army | a colonional force fromed by the 2nd continnetal congress |
benedict arnold | he was an officer who had played a role in the victoryat fort ticonderoga |
declartion of independence | the document , written in 1776 in which the colonies declared independence from britian |
thomas jefferson | he composed the declartion of independence |