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Ch6 SS Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The British monarch wanted to enforce the proclamation, so he passed the acts. | King George III |
| Required colonists to house & feed British soldiers | Quartering Acts |
| Income | Revenue |
| Law that made sugar, molasses, & other stuff shipped taxed | Sugar Act |
| Required all legal & illegal documents carrying a stamp showing they’ve been taxed | Stamp Act |
| Member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses who started the protest for the Stamp Act | Patrick Henry |
| Refusal to buy | Boycott |
| Lawyers, merchants, & craftspeople that made a secret society against the Stamp Act | Sons of Liberty |
| Suspended New York’s assembly & made sure goods were taxed | Townshend Acts |
| Search warrants | Writs of Assistance |
| Leader of Sons of Liberty that protested against the Townshend Acts | Samuel Adams |
| A mini-battle between British soldiers & Boston colonists where 5 colonists, including Crispus Attucks, died | Boston Massacre |
| Lawyer that defended the soldiers & was the cousin of Samuel Adams | John Adams |
| Groups that exchanged letters about the colonial affairs | Committees of Correspondence |
| When Boston colonists came aboard a British ship filled with tea & dumped the tea overboard | Boston Tea Party |
| Force of armed civilians | Militia |
| Militia that was to be ready to act in one minute | Minutemen |
| Laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| Meeting where delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until they took back the Intolerable Acts | First Continental Congress |
| Boston silversmith that rode out at midnight to warn John Hancock & Samuel Adams that the British were coming | Paul Revere |
| First battles of the Revolutionary War | Lexington & Concord |
| Supported Britain | Loyalists |
| Rebelled against Britain | Patriots |
| Leader of the Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| Cannon & large guns | Artillery |
| Meeting where the delegates decided to form an army | Second Continental Congress |
| America’s army | Continental Army |
| Part of the plan to invade Quebec & helped with the victory at Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| Piece of writing declaring America’s independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| Delegate from Virginia that wrote the Declaration | Thomas Jefferson |