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Chapter 6 Vocab
| Definition | Vocab Word |
|---|---|
| a British Monarch who wanted to enforce the proclamation of 1763 and also keep peace with the Native Americans. | King George 3 |
| required the colonists to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies | Quartering Act |
| income, profit | revenue |
| a law that placed a rax on sugar molasses and other products shipped to the colonies | Sugar Act |
| required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stampshowing that a tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| a member of the Virginia house of burgesses that encouraged protesting against Britains plocies | Patrick Henry |
| a refusal to buy | boycott |
| a society that opposed and protested against Britain and their policies, Boston Tea Party organizers | Sons of Liberty |
| born a slave,he escaped by running away to sea and later to a bullet in the Boston Massacre. | Crispus Attucks |
| a series of laws passed by Parliament as a way to raise revenue | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | writs of assistance |
| a leader of the Sons of Liberty that encouraged protesting against Britain | Samuel Adams |
| a fight that broke out in front of the Customs House and resulted in five deaths. | Boston Massacre |
| defended the British | John Adams |
| a group of people in the colonies that exchanged letters on colonial affairs | committees of correspondence |
| the dumping of 342 chests of tea into boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the tea act | Boston Tea Party |
| a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community | militia |
| militia men that could act on a minute's notice | Minutemen |
| a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachussets colonists for the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts |
| a meeting of delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights | First Continental Congress |
| went to send a message to Concord from Jamestown that the British troops were moving but got intercepted by British troops on the way. | Paul Revere |
| the first battles of the revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
| colonists that still supported Britain and the Parliament | Loyalists |
| colonists that opposed the British and sided with the rebels from the Boston Tea Party | Patriots |
| Leader of a band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys who captured a fort and got a large supply of artillery that became important in taking Boston back from the British | Ethan Allen |
| cannon and large guns | artillery |
| a governing body whose agreed to form the Continental Army and make other important decisions | Second Continental Congress |
| a colonial force authorized by the Second COntinental Congressin 1775 with George Washington as the commanding general. | Continental Army |
| a leader who played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga. | Benidict Arnold |
| the document writtenin 1776 in which the colonies declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| the composer of the Declaration of Idependence. | Thomas Jefferson |
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