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Ch. 6 Vocabulary
Jiasheng Qin's Ch. 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The British monarch who wanted to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 and also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies by keeping 10,000 soldiers in the colonies | King George III |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers | Quartering Act |
| Income a government collects to cover expenses | revenue |
| A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugars, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smugglers | Sugar Act |
| A 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, who called for resistance to the tax (inc. that of the stamp Act) and said that if resistance was treason, then the colonists in the 13 colonies should make the most of it | Patrick Henry |
| A refusal to buy certain goods | boycott |
| A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution | Sons of Liberty |
| An African-American slave who had ran way to work as a sailor on whaling boats; in 1770, he was brought to Boston and decided to investigate a disturbance involving colonists and British troops. He was shot dead by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre. | Crispus Attucks |
| 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 | Townshend Acts |
| Search warrants that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods | writs of assistance |
| A leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty who drove a boycott of British goods on Oct. 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts | Samuel Adams |
| A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed | Boston Massacre |
| A lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams who, although criticized, defended the arrested British soldiers in the Massacre by arguing that they were defending themselves. He wanted to show that law was an incorruptible rule that even the colonists followed. | John Adams |
| A group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs | committee of correspondence |
| The dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
| A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution (or an emergency military force that is not part of the regular army [This term is more general.]) | militia |
| A member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning" | Minuteman |
| A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| A meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights | First Continental Congress |
| The Boston silversmith who spread the news of British troop movements. Signaled how they would come: 1 lantern = by land, 2 = by sea; rode ahead of British to spread news, made it passed Lexington, but was capture before Concord. | Paul Revere |
| Sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of the American Revolution | Lexington and Concord |
| An American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution | Loyalist |
| An American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution | Patriot |
| Led Green Mountain Boys on May 10, 1775 in an attack against Brit. Ft. Ticonderoga, capturing the fort and its large supply of artillery (the artillery would later help drive British from Boston) | Ethan Allen |
| A cannon or large gun | artillery |
| A governing body whose delegates agreed, in May 1775, to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence | Second Continental Congress |
| A colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, with George Washington as its commanding general | Continental Army |
| a leader of an attempted invasion of Quebec in 1775, which would serve to draw Canadians into Patriot camp; arriving at November, his attacked failed, partly due to the weather | Benedict Arnold |
| The document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| The Virginian writer that was chosen to compose the Declaration, of which he mostly finished in 2 weeks. | Thomas Jefferson |
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