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Imperialism
Imperialism Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and threw their cargo of tea into the water. | Boston Tea Party |
| A term used to describe all the places around the world that were once ruled by Britain | British Empire |
| These acts taxed tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass coming into colonial ports. | Townsend Acts |
| The first English colonies in North America | New World |
| A term used to describe a group of territories ruled by one single ruler or state. | Empire |
| Expanding a country’s rule and power beyond its borders | Imperialism |
| Groups of soldiers that would be ready to fight “at a minute’s warning.” | Minutemen |
| These acts closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea they had ruined. | Intolerable Acts |
| When empire builders introduced new people, practices and rules to their ‘new’ lands and use its resources for their own gain, at the expense of the indigenous people | Colonialism |
| The war in which Great Britain’s 13 American colonies won their independence. | American Revolution |
| This act put a tax on legal papers, newspapers, and other printed items. | Stamp Act |
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Brenda.Olson
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