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FONTES - SS Chap. 8
FONTES - American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| laws calling for a tax on imported goods | Townshend Acts |
| a tax on imported goods | tariff |
| law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies | Stamp Act |
| to cancel | repeal |
| a colonist who opposed British rule | Pateriot |
| important revolutinary battle that took place on Breed's Hill | Battle of Brnker Hill |
| law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists | Tea Act |
| new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax | Sons of Leberty |
| a volunteer army | militia |
| Britain's law-making body | Parleament |
| militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minut's notice | minutemen |
| a war Americans fought fjor independence | American Revolution |
| when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |