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Road to Revoultion
Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The British monarch; the king of England | King George III |
| 1765 Parliament passed it Required the colonies to house the British soldiers | Quartering Act |
| Income; money | Revenue |
| Parliament passed 1764 Placed tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to colonists | Sugar Act |
| 1765 Parliament passed an act Required all law and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| A member of the Virginia's House of Burgesses | Patrick Henry |
| refusal to buy | boycott |
| a group to oppose British policies protest peaceful and violent against Parliament's laws | Sons Of Liberty |
| Parliament passed it in 1767 suspended New York's assembly until New Yorkers agree to provide housing for troops | Townshend Acts |
| search warrants use it to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods | writs of assistance |
| a leader of Boston Sons of Liberty | Samuel Adams |
| March 5,1770 a fight broke out between youths and British soldiers fought in front of the custom house in front of | Boston Massacre |
| a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams defended British soldiers in court supported the colonial cause but wanted to show that the colonists followed the rule of law | John Adams |
| groups exchanged letters on colonial affairs | Committees of Correspondence |
| Sons of Liberty organized it group of men dressed up as Native Americans boarded onto three tea ship docked onto the Boston Harbor destroyed 342 chests of tea | Boston Tea Party |
| Parliament passed series of laws 1774 to punish Massachusetts colony and serve as a warning to other colonies British called them the Coercive Acts | Intolerable Acts |
| ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts each colony begin training troops one delegate from each colony except Benjamin Franklin | First Continental Congress |
| a second messenger alert colonists from Charleston spread news about British movements | Paul Revere |
| first battles of Revolutionary War "short heard 'round the world" | Lexington and Concord |
| people who were loyal to the king | Loyalists |
| sided with the rebels/America | Patriot |
| led band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| cannon and large guns | artillery |
| May 10 met in Philadelphia delegates: John and Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Patrick Henry | Second Continental Congress |
| Washington commanding general | Continental Army |
| leader of the expedition to go to Quebec,Canada was an officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| appointed by a committee to draft it Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| compose the Declaration of Independence part of the committee who draft it as well | Thomas Jefferson |
| force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community | militia |
| about one-third of the Lexington militia were it trained to be "ready to act at a minute's warning" | Minutemen |
| free black man a sailor, whaling boats got short during the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
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