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Ch 6 Vocab Link
Chapter 6 Vocab for Mrs. Link
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch who wanted to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 | King George III |
| cost saving measure that required colonists to house British soldiers | Quartering Act |
| income | revenue |
| placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies | Sugar Act |
| required all legal and commercial documents to carry stamps | Stamp Act |
| member of the Virginia's house of Burgesses who called for resistance of taxes | Patrick Henry |
| lawyers, merchants, and craftspeople most affected by the Stamp Act that staged protests | Sons of Liberty |
| refusal to buy | boycott |
| born into slavery and was killed in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| plan used to raise revenue for Britain in the colonies | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | Writs of Assistance |
| a leader in the Sons of Liberty | Samuel Adams |
| shooting where British soldiers killed 5 Americans | Boston Massacre |
| a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams | John Adams |
| groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs and were formed by Samuel Adams | committee of correspondence |
| when Americans dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 tea boxes into the Hudson bay as protest | Boston Tea Party |
| a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community | militia |
| men trained to be ready at a minutes notice | minute men |
| laws passed to punish the Massachusetts colonies | Intolerable acts |
| when delegates from all colonies but Georgia voted to ban trade with England until Intolerable Acts repealed | First Continental Congress |
| Boston silver smith who spread the news that the British were coming | Paul Revere |
| the first 2 battles of the Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord |
| those who supported the British | loyalist |
| those who sided with the rebels | patriot |
| led the Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| cannons and large guns | artillery |
| which in which delegates agreed to form the Continental Army | Second Continental Congress |
| agreed to be formed at the Second Continental Congress- army in the Revolutionary war | Continental Army |
| officer who was at Ft. Ticonderoga, leader of an expedition to Maine | Benedict Arnold |
| document that declared the colonists an independent country after the Revolutionary war | Declaration of Independence |
| on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |