social studies Word Scramble
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vocab. | meaning |
smuggle | to illegally import or export goods |
navigation acts | a series of laws passed by Parliament beginning in 1651 to ensure that England made money from it's colonies trade |
Parliament | England's chief law making body |
salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700's |
enlightenment | an 18th-century movement that emphases the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge |
French and Indian war | a conflict in North America from 1754 to 1763 that was part of a world wide struggle between France and Britain; Britain defeated France and gained French Canada and Lousianna |
albany plan of union | the first formal proposal to unite the American colonists, put forth by Ben Franklin |
treaty of paris of 1763 | the 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian war; Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi river |
proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains |
boycott | to refuse to buy certain products of services |
revenue | income a government collects to cover expenses $ |
quarters | a place where a soldier lives |
redcoats | nickname for a British soldier |
minutemen | volunteers from Massachusetts who would fight at a "minutes" notice |
repeal | to cancel or withdraw a law |
militia | volunteer soldiers used in an emergency |
sons of liberty | a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British polices at the time of the American Revolution |
loyalists (tory) | an American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution |
patriot | an american colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution |
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