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Chapter 6 Vocab Bk
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British monarch? | King George III. |
| Required the colonies to house british soliders and provide them with supplies. | Quartering Act. |
| Income | Revenue. |
| This law placed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. | Sugar Act. |
| This law required all legal documents to carry an offical stamo showing that tax had been paid. | Stamp Act. |
| A member of Virgina's House of Burgesses and he the one who called resistance to the tax. | Patrick Henry. |
| The refusal to buy stuff. | Boycott. |
| A group of colonist who formed a serect society to oppose british policies. | Sons of Liberty. |
| The son of an African American father and a Naive American mother. | Crispus Attucks. |
| Law that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods that were brought into the british colonies. | Townshend Acts. |
| Search warrants. | writs of assistance. |
| The leader of the Boston Sons of liberty. | Samuel Adams. |
| A fight between british soliders and five Boston colonists,including Crispus Attucks,were killed. | Boston Massacre. |
| A lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams. | John Adams. |
| A group who exchanged letters on colonial affairs. | Committe of Correspondence. |
| The dumping of 342 chests of tea into boston harboto protest the Tea Act. | Boston Tea Party. |
| A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community. | Militia. |
| Militia who were trained to respond "at a minute's warning." | Minuteman. |
| Laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts. |
| The meeting when deldgates voted to ban all trade with british until the intolerable Acts were repealed. | First Continental Congress. |
| A Boston silversmith. | Paul Revere. |
| The first battles of the Revolutionary War. | Lexington and Concord. |
| Those who supported the british. | Loyalists. |
| Those who sided with the rebels. | Patriots. |
| This person led the band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys. | Ethan Allen. |
| Cannon and large guns. | Artillery. |
| A governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army. | Second Continental Congress. |
| A colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress. | Continental Army. |
| A officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga. | Benedict Arnold. |
| Document writtnen in 1776, in Which the colonies declared independence from Britian. | Declaration of Independence. |
| He was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. | Thomas Jefferson. |