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Chapter 8 Soc.
Question | Answer |
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Townshend Acts | laws calling for a tax on imported goods |
tariff | a tax on imported goods |
Stamp Act | law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies |
repeal | to cancel |
Patriot | a colonist who opposed British rule |
Battle of Bunker Hill | important revolutionary battle that took place on Breed's Hill |
Tea Act | law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists |
Intolerable Acts | new laws dictated by Britian to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
Sons of Liberty | group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax |
militia | a volunteer army |
Parliament | Britain's law-making assemble |
minutemen | militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minute's notice |
American Revolution | a war Americans fought for independence |
Boston Tea Party | when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act |
Daughters of Liberty | supported boycott by making tea out of herbs and weaving cloth |
William Prescott | led colonist in Battle of Bunker Hill |
Paul Revere | patriot that warned the people of the British attack |
Patrick Henry | one of the first to speak out against the Stamp Act |
Samuel Adams | organized the Sons of Liberty |