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Ch.6 History Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch who wanted to keep peace with its Native American allies and enforce the Proclamation of 1763 | King George III |
| A law passed by British Parliament in 1765 which required colonists to house British troops and provide them with supplies | Quartering Act |
| Income needed to help pay expenses | revenue |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1764 placing a tax on sugar, molasses and other products shipped to the colonies | Sugar Act |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official mark showing a tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the British-imposed stamp tax | Patrick Henry |
| Refusal to buy certain products | boycott |
| A colonial secret society opposed to British policies | Sons of Liberty |
| A sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry who was an early hero of America's struggle for freedom | Crispus Attucks |
| Passed in 1767 by Parliament it suspended New York's assembly as well as placing import taxes on such products as glass, paper, lead, paint, and tea | Townshend Acts |
| A warrant that let British officers enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods | writs of assistance |
| A colonial leader who led a 1767 boycott of British goods and urged colonists to resist British control | Samuel Adams |
| In 1770, a violent fight between British soldiers and colonists where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonial protesters killing five colonists | Boston Massacre |
| Lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams who defended the British soldiers in court | John Adams |
| Groups of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs | committees of correspondence |
| A 1773 protest of the Tea Act where colonists disguised as Mohawks destroyed tea aboard British ships by dumping 342 chests of tea into a harbor | Boston Tea Party |
| A force of armed civilians who pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution | militia |
| Militia trained to be ready quickly | Minutemen |
| A series of laws passed in 1775 passed by Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| A 1774 meeting of delegates from all colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights | First Continental Congress |
| Boston silversmith who took a midnight ride spreading news about British troops' movements | Paul Revere |
| Massachusetts' locations of the first battles of the American Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord |
| Term for American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution | Loyalist |
| Term for American colonist who sided with rebels in the American Revolution | Patriot |
| Led Green Mountain Boys and captured Fort Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen |
| Cannons or large guns | artillery |
| May 1775, assembly that authorized the Continental Army and approved the Declaration of Independence | Second Continental Congress |
| A colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress with George Washington as its commanding general | Continental Army |
| An officer who played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| The 1776 document in which the colonies declared independence and called for separation from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| A respected political leader and thinker who was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
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