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Chapter 6 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| proclamation of 1763 and keep peace with the Indians | King George III |
| required colonists to house British soldiers and give them any supplies they needed | Quartering Act |
| another word for income | revenue |
| law that placed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other imported products | SUgar Act |
| required all legal documents to have a stamp saying tax has been paid | Stamp ACt |
| memeber of the House of Burg.who called for resistance against tax | Patrick Henry |
| a refusal to buy | boycott |
| a famous secret society that opposed British policies | Sons of Liberty |
| a sailor of African and Indian descent who died in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| canceled many NY assemblies and taxed many goods | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | Writs of Assistance |
| leader of the SOns of LIbery who protested British Control | Sam Adams |
| British shot down 5 american sailors in front of the customs house | Boston Massacre |
| defended the soldiers who killed in the Boston Massacre | John Adams |
| groups that would share letters on various colonial affairs | Committees pf Correspondence |
| groups of men disguised as Indians boarded British tea ships and dumped out all the tea | Boston Tea PArty |
| force of armed citizens | militia |
| people who were trained to be ready quickly | minutemen |
| Brtish set these laws as a punishment for Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| A meeting where delegates from all the colonies came to discuss problems | 1st Continental Congress |
| Boston silversmith who was in charge of spreading the word of British troop movements | Paul Revere |
| first battles of the revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
| those who supported the British | Loyalists |
| those who sided with the rebels | Patriots |
| led Green Mt. Boys and captured Ft. Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen |
| cannons and large guns | artillery |
| second meeting where they began acting as a gov. | Second Continental Congress |
| one of the leaders of the expedition to invade Quebec who later became a traitor | Benedict Arnold |
| a document stating the 13 colonies were breaking up with Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| excellent writer who drafted the declaration | Thomas Jefferson |