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Ch.6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King George III | the British monarch, the King of England |
| Quartering Act | a law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers |
| Revenue | income a government collects to cover expenses |
| Sugar Act | a law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies |
| Stamp Act | a 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry a official stamp showing a tax had been paid |
| Patrick Henry | a member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, called for resistance to the Stamp Act |
| Boycott | a refusal to buy certain goods |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose the British policies at the time of the American Revolution |
| Crispus Attucks | one of the five killed in the Boston Massacre, one of the first African-Americans to lose his life for the country |
| Townshend Acts | 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 |
| Writs of Assistance | a search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods |
| Samuel Adams | leader of Boston’s Sons of Liberty |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonist in 1770, in which five of the colonist, including Crispus Attucks, were killed |
| John Adams | cousin of Samuel Adams, defended the Red Coasts involved in the Boston Massacre in court |
| Committee of Correspondence | a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonist in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| Militia | force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution |
| Minutemen | a member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond “at a minutes warning” |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | a meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights |
| Paul Revere | a Boston silversmith, and one of the messengers that rode around spreading the news of British troop movements |
| Lexington and Concord | sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of the American Revolution |
| Loyalists | an American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution |
| Patriot | an American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution |
| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mountain Boys |
| Artillery | a cannon or a large gun |
| Second Continental Congress | a governing body whose delegates agreed, in May 1775, to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence |
| Continental Army | a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, with George Washington as its commanding general |
| Benedict Arnold | an officer who played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | the document written in 1776, in which the colonies declared their independence from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | part of the committee to draft a Declaration of Independence, was the one chosen to write the declaration, was an excellent writer and came from Virginia |
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