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history chap.5 sec2
the spirit of independence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| propaganda | information made to influence public opinion |
| occupy | control |
| Crispus Attucks | a dockworker who was part african part native american, one of the people who died from the Boston Massacre |
| encounter | unexpected meeting |
| Boston Massacre | a fight between the bostonians and the soliders.5 were killed and 6 wounded. |
| comitee of correspondednce | an organization used in earlier protests |
| tea act | a law the allowed the company sole control of the trade fot tea in america |
| boston tea party | 342 chests of tea thrown overboard by the sons of liberty |
| king george III | realized that britain was losing control of the colonies and passed the coercive acts |
| coercive acts | laws that were intended to punish the people of massachusetts for their resistence to british law |