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Ch 6 vocab
Question | Answer |
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The British monarch who wanted Parliam ment to pass the Proclamation of 1763. | King George the Third |
The cost saving measure that required colonist to house british troops | Quarting Act |
Income | Revenue |
This Act placed tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. | Sugar Act |
This law required all documents to have an offical stamp saying a tax had been payed. | Stamp Act |
Member of the House of Burgesses who called for a resistance to the taxes. | Patrick Henry |
A refusel to buy stuff | boycott |
One of the more famous secret socities who oppsed British polices | Sons of Liberty |
One of the people who was killed in the Boston Massacre. | Crispus Attucks |
Charles Towenshend's plan to make money for Parliment. | Townshend Acts |
Search Warrents | Writs of assiatance |
A leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty | Samuel Adams |
When tensions finaly erruped into vilence and the redcoats killed four people including Crispus Attucks | Boston Massacre |
A lawyer who defened the redcoats who fired the shots in the Boston Massacre | John Adams |
Groups in Mass. who corresopned with each other. | Committed of correspondence |
When the Sons of Liberty through all of the tea on the boats into the Biston Harbor, to show how much they hated the Tea Act | Boston Tea party |
These act punished Mass. for the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts |
Every colony except for Georgia sent a delagate to this meeting to discuss how to uphold colonial rights. | First Continental Congress |
The person who did the midnight ride, but got caught | Paul Revere |
The first battles that led to American Independece. | Lexington and Concord. |
People who supported Britian | Loyalists |
Peopel who sided with the rebels | Patriots |
This person led a band of backwoodsmen and captured a fort with lots of artillery | Ethan Allen |
Cannon and large guns | Artillery |
The second meeting that formed the rebels army led by Washington. | Second Continental Congress |
The army led by washington | Continental Army |
A leader of the expedition to try and capture Quebec | Benedict Arnold |
Stated that America was free from Britian | Declaration of Independence |
A person on the committee to draft the declarationof independence | Thomas Jefferson |