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Ch.#6
Ch.6 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King George III | the British monarchy that wanted to keep the peace between the British and the Native Americans |
| Quartering Act | a law passed by the Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers |
| revenue | income |
| Sugar Act | a law passed by the parliament in 1764 that placed tax on sugar and molasses shipped to the colonies and punished smugglers |
| Stamp Act | a 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry and official stamp to show that a tax had been paid |
| Patrick Henry | a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who wanted to resist the Stamp Act |
| Boycott | a refusal to buy certain goods |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of colonists that created a secret society that was formed to oppose British polocies at the time of the American Revolution |
| Crispus Attuck | a sailor of African American and Native American ancestry who was an early hero of the Americaan struggle for freedom |
| Townshend Acts | a series of laws that was passed by Parliament that suspended New York assemblies in 1767 and established taxes on goods brought into the colonies |
| writ of assistance | a search warrant that allowed British officials to search homes and businesses to search for suggled goods |
| Samuel Adams | a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| Boston massacre | a clash between British soldiers and colonists in which five colonist were killed, including Crispus Attucks. |
| John Adams | a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams who defended the British soldiers for natual rights |
| committee of correspondence | a group of people in the colonies that exchanged letter about colonial affairs |
| Boston tea party | the dumping od 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor by the colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| militia | a force of armed civilains pledged to defens their community |
| Minutemen | a member of the militia that was trained to act on a minutes warning |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws passed by the Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | a meeting in Philidelpia from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights |
| Paul Revere | a Boston silversmith who spread news of the British troop's movement |
| Lexington and Concord | sites in Massachusetts of the first battle of the American Revolution |
| Loyalist | an American colonist that supported the British |
| Patriot | an American colonist that sided with the rebels |
| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mt. boys to attack Fort Ticonderoga |
| artillery | a cannon or largegun |
| Second Continental Congress | a governing body that, in May 1775, formed the Continental Army and approved the Declaration of Independence |
| Continental Army | a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress that was led by George Washington |
| Benedict Arnold | an officer who played a role in the victory of Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | a doccument of 1776, that declared that the colonies were independent of Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | an excellent writer that came from Virginia and wrote the Declaration of Independence |
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