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CH 6 vocab AM
ch 6 vocab AM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| British Monarch, wanted to enforce the proclaimation and keep peace with Britains Native Americans | King George 111 |
| this was the cost saving meausure that was required to the colonies to quarter the british soliders to pay for their supplies | Quartering act |
| a income, or to meet expenses that Britain used | revenue |
| A law that placed a tax o Sugar,molasses and other products shipped to the coloinies | Sugar act |
| a law that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax has been paid | Stamp act |
| a member of the virginias house of burgesses called for resistence to the tax | Patrick Henry |
| the refusal to buy something | boycott |
| were lawyers merchants and crafstpeople who these groupes staged prortests on the Stamp Act | Sons of Liberty |
| Knew about the struggle of freedom, attucks escaped and spent the next 20 years as a sailor | Crispus Attucks |
| a parliament passed in 1767 that suspended new yorks assembley until New yorkers agreed to provide housing for troops | Townshend Acts |
| also known as search warrants to enter homes or buisnesses to search for smuggled goods | writs of assistance |
| a leader of the sons of liberty, urged colonists to keep resisting British controls | Samuel Adams |
| a fight broke out among the british and Boston and they started firing | Boston Massacre |
| a lawyer that defended the red coats, and thought it was self defense, and British were not guilty | John Adams |
| when Samuel Adams wanted to make sure that people didnt forget the cause of liberty he went telling all the towns | commitee of corespondence |
| protested against the Tea Act so on December 16,1773 many colonist dumped tea into the sea | Boston Tea Party |
| a force of armed civilians | militia |
| trained to be ready to act at a minutes warning | Minuteman |
| a series of laws passed to punish the colonies and to serve as a warning | Intolerable Acts |
| delagates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable acts were repealed | First Continental Congress |
| a boston silversmith that was in charge to spread the news about british troop movement | Paul Revere |
| were the first battles of the Revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
| those who supported Britain | Loyalists |
| those who sided with the rebels | Patriots |
| led the Green Mts. Boys to gather supplies | Ethan Allen |
| canjnon or large guns(supply of weapons) | artilllery |
| group of delagates that agreed in May 1775 to approve the Declaration of Independence | Secondary Continental Congress |
| a colonial force authorized by the Secondary Continental Congress IN 1775 | Continental Army |
| a officer who took role in the victory of Fort Ticonderoga | Benidict Arnold |
| a draft created to give all the colonies Independence that was signed by many | Declaration of Independence |
| wrote the Declaration of Independence, who also had a passion to invent things | Thomas Jefferson |