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ch.6vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch, wanted to enforce the proclamation and keep peace with Native Americans, so he passed the Quartering Act. | King George 3 |
| a law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers. | Quartering Act |
| income a government collects to cover expenses. | revenue |
| a law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smugglers. | Sugar Act |
| a 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid. | Stamp Act |
| a member of the House of Burgesses, called for resistance to the tax. | Patrick Henry |
| a refusal to buy certain goods. | boycott |
| a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the same time of the American Revolution. | Sons of Liberty |
| was born into slavery, but escaped and became a sailor with a fake name. He was in a protest in the Boston Massacre and was shot and died. | Crispus Attucks |
| a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies. | Townshend Acts |
| a search warrent that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods. | writs of assistance |
| was the driving force behind the protest of the Townshend Acts and another boycott. He was the leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty and urged colonists to resist British controls. | Samuel Adams |
| a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed. | Boston Massacre |
| he was a lawyer and defended the redcoats in the Boston Massacre. People critcized him for doing that. He was for the cause, but he wanted to show that the colonists followed the rule of law. He argued that they only did that in self-defence. | John Adams |
| a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs. | committee of correspondence |
| the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act. | Boston Tea Party |
| a force of armed civilians pleged to defend their community during the American Revolution; an emergency military force that is not part of the regular army. | militia |
| a member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning." | Minuteman |
| a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts |
| a meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights. | First Continental Congress |
| was a Boston silversmith that spread the knowledge that the British were coming. He swam in water from Boston to Charleston and rode from Lexington and Concord. He and his partner Dawes were stopped and that's when Prescott took his place in Lexington. | Paul Revere |
| sites in Massachusetts of the first battle of the American Revolution. | Lexington and Concord |
| an American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution. | Loyalist |
| an American colonist that sided with the rebels in the American Revolution. | Patriot |
| led the Green Mountain Boys and captured the British fort Ticonderoga and its artillery. | Ethan Allan |
| a cannon or large gun. | artillery |
| a governing body whose delegates agreed, in May 1775, to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence. | Second Continental Congress |
| a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, with George Washington as its commanding general. | Continental Army |
| was one of the leaders of the Quebec expedition. He had helped capture Fort Ticonderoga. Because of the winter, they failed. | Benedict Arnold |
| the document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britian. | Declaration of Independence |
| was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. He was an excellent writer and came from the initial support, Virginia. | Thomas Jefferson |
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