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ch 6 vocab ss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The British Monarch | King George III |
| cost saving measure that required colonies to house Britsh soldiers and provide them with supplies | Quartering Act |
| income | revenue |
| 164-placed tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to colonies | Sugar Act |
| 1765-law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| a member of house of bugesses that called for resistance to the tax | Patrick Henry |
| refusal to buy | boycott |
| most famous of secret societies | Sons of Liberty |
| son of african-american father and native american mother | Crispus Attucks |
| 1767-series of laws passed by Parliament that suspended New york's asssembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | writs of assistance |
| the driving force behind protest of townshend acts | Samuel Adams |
| a shooting that killed attucks and 4 laborers | Boston Massacre |
| a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams | John Adams |
| groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs | committee of correspondence |
| Sons of liberty organized-destructuon of 342 chests of tea | Boston Tea Party |
| force of armed civilians | militia |
| people trained to be ready in a minute | Minuteman |
| another name for coercive acts 1774 | Intolerable Acts |
| september 1774-meeting that delegates from all colonies except Georgia met in | First Continental Congress |
| a boston silversmith | Paul Revere |
| first battles of the revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
| people who supported the British | Loyalist |
| people who sided with the rebels | Patriot |
| led band of backwoodsmen known as the green mountain boys | Ethan Allen |
| cannon and large guns | artillery |
| may 10 meeting in philadelphia | 2nd continental congress |
| washingtion was commander leader of this army | Continental army |
| leader of expedition to invade quebec | Benedict Arnold |
| 1776-document in which colonies declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| excellent writer and came from virginia | Thomas Jefferson |