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Social Studies
Ch. 10 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| debts | money that is owed to someone else. People (and organizations, such as governments) have debts when they have borrowed money and promised to pay it back. |
| acts | Laws created or passed by a government. |
| taxation without reprensentation | Forcing people to pay taxes when they have had no say in making the law that created the tax. American colonists were angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British Parliament, where they had no representatives |
| protest | To complain publicly about something that people believe is wrong or unfair. |
| Parliament | The lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States. The American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to Parliament. |
| repeal | to take back, or to cancel, a law |