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Jude 5th - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: If This Be Treason
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| Mt. Vernon | George Washington's home |
| Sons of Liberty | colonial revolutionaries who used different methods to rise the colonists up against the British |
| Samuel Adams | leader of the Sons of Liberty |
| John Adams | lawyer who defended the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre |
| Stamp Act | law requiring colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents, diplomas, etc. |
| "No taxation without representation!" | colonists feeling angry over not having any say or representation in Parliament how they were being taxed |
| Smuggled Goods Law | law that prevented New England merchants from smuggling in goods into the colonies |
| radical | a person with revolutionary ideas about government and society |
| Declaratory Act | stated that Parliament had absolute control over when and how it taxed the colonies |
| Townshend Acts | placed a new tax on British manufactured items sent to the colonies and placed a tax on British tea |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by an angry mob in Boston |
| Boston Tea Party | event where members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 343 boxes of British tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Quartering Act | required that private citizens of Boston must quarter the British soldiers stationed there |
| Government Act | act that took away Boston's elected officials and replaced them with British appointed ones |
| Minutemen | Massachusetts militia made up of farmers and volunteers who were ready to fight at a "minutes notice" |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of the colonies to discuss what to do about Parliament's unjust treatment of the colonies |
| Patriot | person who supported the cause for separating from the British Empire and creating a new nation |
| Loyalist | person who wanted to stay in the British Empire |
| Tory | nickname for Loyalists |
| General Thomas Gage | British general stationed in Boston who ordered British troops to seize illegal Patriot weapons |
| Paul Revere and William Dawes | riders sent out to warn the people of Boston that the British were coming |
| "shot heard around the world" | shot that no one knows who fired, but started the American Revolution |
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