3rd quarter
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| mercantilism | An economic system based on trade and currency.
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| intrepid | Fearless or persistent; characterized by bravery or endurance.
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| provincials | People of local or restricted interests or outlooks-lacking polish or refinement.
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| standing army | a permanent army.
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| smuggler | Illegal traders who avoid paying taxes.
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| Committees of Correspondence | Committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws.
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| boycott | people refused to buy British goods. The first colonial boycott was in New York, in 1765. Soon it spread to other colonies.
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| Stamp Act of 1765 | Required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
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| Stamp Act of Congress | In 1765, delegates from nine colonies met in New York. They issueda declaration that the Stamp Act was a violation of their rights and liberties.
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| Sons of Liberty | As secret organization of colonists formed to protest British policies.
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| Declaratory Act | Stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies. The act took away a lot of the colonist independence.
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| Townshend Acts | Placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The tax collectors were allowed to search for the goods.
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| Boston Massacre | An incident in which British soldiers fires into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
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| propaganda | The deliberate spreading of information, or rumors.
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| Boston Tea Party | A protest against the Tea Act in which in which a group of colonists boarded British Tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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| Intolerable/Coercive Acts | Laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten control of the colonies.
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| Proclamation of 1763 | This law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. It ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley.
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| Treaty of Paris 1763 | This treaty officially ended the war of Quebec.
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