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social studies 8
Road to war Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The government decided to ________________, or cancel the law | repeal |
| local merchants held a _______________ against imported good | tariff |
| The ________________________ were laws punishing the colonists for dumping tea into Boston Harbor. | Intolerable Acts |
| Even today, _______________ continues to be the law making assembly for Great Britain. | Parliament |
| The _______________ required all colonists to pay a tax on printed materials. | Stamp Act |
| The ___________________ was formed by representatives of all but one of the 13 colonies Representatives voted on what action to take against the British and their taxes. | First continental congress |
| The _______________________ were laws requiring a tax be paid on imported goods | Townsend Act |
| The kicking of five men in Boston by panicked British soldiers in known as the _____________________ | Boston Massacre |
| The British lost many soliders in the ______________ acutally took place on Breed's Hill. | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| The _____________________ supported the boycott of imported goods by making tea from herbs and berries and by weaving cloth | Daughter's of liberty |
| Laws calling for a tax on imported goods | Townshend Act |
| 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 | Pariot |
| Important revolutionary battle that took place on Breeds Hill | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists | Tea Act |
| new law dictated by Britain to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party | Daughters of liberty |
| group that led protest against the new Stamp Act tax | First continental |
| a volunteer army | militia |
| Britain's law-making assembly | Parliament |
| militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minutes' notice | minutemen |
| a war Americans fought for independence | American Revolution |
| When colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act | Boston Tea Act |