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chapter 6 vocab bv
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The British Monarch who wanted to enforce the Proclamtion. | KIng George 3 |
| Colonists had to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies. | Quartering Act |
| Income | revenue |
| Tax placed on sugar, molasses and other products shipped in the colonies | Sugar Act |
| This law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid | Stamp act |
| A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses. | Patrick Henry |
| refusal to buy | boycott |
| Famous group that opposed British policies | Sons of Liberty |
| placed duties, or import taxes, on various goods brought into the colonies such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants | writs of assistance |
| Leader of the Sons of liberty | Samuel Adams |
| British Redcoats killed 5 men | Boston Massacure |
| Defended the soldiers in court | John Adams |
| Group that exchanged letters on colonial affairs. | committees of correspondence |
| A couple of men boarded tea ships and destroyed a lot of tea. | Boston Tea party |
| A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community. | militia |
| A group that would be ready at a minute's warning | minutemen |
| Acts that were passed because of the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable acts |
| Delegates voted to ban all trade with Britian until tolerable acts repealed. | First continential congress |
| he took a midnight ride | Paul Revere |
| First battles of the Revolutionary war | Lexington and Concord |
| people who supported the British | Loyalists |
| People who sided with the rebels | Patriots |
| Led the Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| cannon and large guns | artillery |
| Where delegates decided to form the Continental Army | Second Continental Congress |
| was formed at the second contiental congress | Continental Army |
| One leader of the expedition | Benedict Arnold |
| Document to declare Independence from Britian | Declaration Of Independence |
| He wrote the Declaration of independence | Thomas Jefferson |