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Colonial Unrest
Quiz 16 and 17 review
Term | Definition |
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Alamance | The Battle of Alamance was fought between the regulators and the Carolina Militia |
Immigrants | People who leave their homes to travel to another country |
Edmund Fanning | an infamous tax collector who was rich and snobby and was whipped for punishment |
Back Country | A part of North Carolina that was developed by immigrants through draining sewage and plowing fields |
Regulators | Honest men who stole from the government and destroyed their propperty |
Tax Collectors | People who gathered money from people to give to the government and sometimes kept some for themselves |
Halifax Resolves | the first official act by any colony recommending independence from England |
Patriots | Those who wanted to fight for independence from England |
Loyalists | Those who were faithful to England |
Boycott | Refusing to buy something |
Boston Tea Party | When people from Boston dumped tea into the river |