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History Vocab Stack7

History Unit 7 Vocabulary Cards

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Standing Army An army that remains in a particular area to control or protect it.
Smuggler A person who brings goods into a country without paying the required taxes.
Committee of Correspondence Committees formed in the 1760's to help town and colonies share information, including resisting British law.
Boycott The refusal to buy goods or use services of a company.
Stamp Act of 1765 A law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, legal documents, and playing cards.
Sons of Liberty A secret society formed in Boston that used many methods, including violence, to frighten tax collectors and resist British law.
Stamp Act Congress A meeting of representatives from nine colonies to protest the Stamp Act who declared that the Stamp Act was a violation of the colonists' laws and rights.
Declaratory Act In this act, Parliament declared that it had the power to make all laws for the colonies.
Townshend Acts This act placed taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea.
Boston Massacre The term given to an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
Propaganda Material designed to sway opinion for or against a person or idea.
Boston Tea Party A protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Intolerable/Coercive Acts The term the British used for the set of laws intended to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party, and the British used the second name.
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