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History Section 2 7M
Building Colonial Unity Pgs. 126-129
Question | Answer |
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Occupy | to Control |
Crispus Attucks | A dockworker who was part African, part Native American |
Encounter | An unexpected meeting |
Boston Massacre | It was a tragic encounter |
Propaganda | info. made to influence public opinion |
Committee of Correspondence | An organization used in earlier protests |
Tea Act | Parliament passed this law which allowed the East India Company a virtual monoply, or sole control of the trade for tea in America |
Boston Tea Party | On Dec. 16, a group of men disguised as Mohawks who boarded tea ships at midnight to throw 342 chests of tea overboard |
King George III | King of England, realiazed that Britan was loosing control of the colonies. Person who responded by passing the Coercive Acts. |
Coercive Acts | Way that Britan responded to them loosing control over the colonies. These harsh laws were intended to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance to British law. |