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Chapter 6 Vocab SX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch who wanted to keep peace with its Native American allies and enforce the Proclamation of 1763 | King George III |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required colonists to house and keep British soldiers | Quartering Act |
| Income a government collects to cover expenses | Revenue |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smugglers. | Sugar Act |
| A law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay a tax on documents | Stamp Act |
| A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the British-imposed stamp tax | Patrick Henry |
| A refusal to buy certain goods. | Boycott |
| A colonial secret society opposed to British policies | Sons of Liberty |
| An African-American who was killed during the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies | Townshend Acts |
| A warrant that let British officers enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
| A colonial leader who led a 1767 boycott of British goods and urged colonists to resist British control | Samuel Adams |
| In 1770, a violent fight between British soldiers and colonists where five colonists were killed | Boston Massacre |
| A lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams who defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in court | John Adams |
| Groups of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs | Committee of Correspondence |
| A 1773 protest of the Tea Act where colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into a harbor | Boston Tea Party |
| A force of armed civilians who pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution | Militia |
| A member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning" | Minuteman |
| A series of laws enacted in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| A 1774 meeting of delegates from all colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights | First Continental Congress |
| A silversmith from Boston, he was one the messengers charged with spreading the news about British troop movements | Paul Revere |
| Massachusetts' locations of the first battles of the American Revolution | Lexington and Concord |
| Term for American colonists who supported the British in the American Revolution | Loyalist |
| Term for American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution | Patriot |
| Leader of the Green Mountain Boys, a group of militiamen who captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British | Ethan Allen |
| Cannons or large guns | Artillery |
| May, 1775 assembly that authorized the Continental Army and approve the Declaration of Independence | Second Continental Congress |
| A colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, with George Washington as its commanding general. | Continental Army |
| One of the leaders of the invasion of Quebec, he also played a role in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| The 1776 document in which the colonies declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| A respected political leader and thinker how was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
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