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Ch. 6 Vocab
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch that wanted to enforce the proclamation and keep peace with native american allies | King George III |
| act requiring colonies to house British soldiers and supply them | Quartering Act |
| Income | revenue |
| tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies | Sugar Act |
| law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing the tax was paid | Stamp Act |
| Virgina House of Burgesses member who called for resisitance to taxes | Patrick Henry |
| Refusal to buy or support | Boycott |
| Secret Society opposing British policies | Sons of Liberty |
| A martyr to the PAtriots during the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| acts suspending NY's assembly until they agreed ti quarter soldiers; placed import taxes on various good | Townshend acts |
| search warrants for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
| Sons of Liberty leader pushing for boycott and resistance of British control | Samuel Adams |
| Commitee of Correspondence | towns that exchanged lettera on colonial affairs |
| Men disguised as Natives took all British tea on the ships and threw it all in to harbor | Boston tea party |
| tensions in Boston caused a fight with shooting with 5 casualties | Boston Massacre |
| Lawyer who represented the arrested soldiers in court even though he was a patriot | John Adams |
| a small force of armed civilians | militia |
| men ready for action at a minute's notice | minute men |
| punishment of Mass. to serve as a warning | Intolerable Acts |
| meeting of almost all colonies in sept. 1774 | First continental congress |
| Boston silversmith who spread news of british arrival | Paul Revere |
| first battles of the Rev. War | Lexington and concord |
| British supporters | Loyalists |
| RebelS | Patriots |
| led his band of backwoodsmen called Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| 2nd Cont. Congress | meeting of delegates |
| cannons and large guns | Artillery |
| Colonial army | Contrinental army |
| officer at fort ticonderoga that betrayed Amer. in time | Benedict Arnold |
| doc. saying that Amer. was ind. | Declaration of Independence |
| a writer of Dec. of Ind. | Thomas Jefferson |