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Chapter 6 US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King George III | the British monarch that passed many taxes among the colonies after the French and Indian War |
| Quartering Act | a cost- saving measure that required colonists to house soldiers and provide for their supplies |
| revenue | income |
| Sugar Act | a law that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; called for strict enforcement for this act and harsh punishment of smugglers |
| Stamp Act | passed by parliament in 1765 and required all legal and commercial documents to have an official stamp that showed a tax had been paid (diplomas, wills, contracts, newspaper) |
| Patrick Henry | a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses that called for resistence against the stamp act |
| boycott | a refusal to buy |
| Sons of Liberty | a famous secret society that opposed the British policies |
| Crispus Attucks | a former slave that was shot in the Boston massacre |
| Townshend Acts | a series of laws that were passed in 1767 and was thought of by the king's financer: Charles Townshend |
| Samuel Adamsa | a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| Boston Massacre | a shooting that took place on March 5, 1770 between a group of youths including Crispus Attucks and dockworkers which ended up w/ 5 youths dead including Attucks |
| John Adams | a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams and defended the soldiers that fired in the Boston Massacre |
| committees of correspondence | they exchanged letters on colonial affairs and Samuel Adams helped for this group |
| Boston Tea Party | a group of men that disguised themselves as natives and boarded 3 tea ships and dumped 342 chests of teas into the Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773 |
| Intolerable Acts | also known as the coercive acts that were passed to punish Massachusetts for what happened at the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | September 1774, delegates from each state except for Georgia met in Philadelphia and voted to ban all trade with Britain until the intolerable acts were repealed |
| Paul Revere | a Boston silversmith that was ordered to spread the news about the British soldiers movements |
| Lexington and Concord | the first two battles of the Revolutionary War and were also known as the shot heard 'round the world |
| Loyalists | those who supported the British |
| Patriots | those who sided with the rebels |
| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mountain Boys and attacked Britain's Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775 |
| artillery | cannons and large guns |
| Second Continental Congress | a meeting on May 10 that included delegates in Philadelphia |
| Continental Army | commanded by commanding general, George Washington and formed by the Second Continental Congress |
| Benedict Arnold | a leader who played a role at the battle at Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | the document that declared independence from Britain and was written by Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Jefferson | the writer of the Declaration of Independence and was from Virginia was also an excellent writer |
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