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Foster ch 5 history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Revenue | incoming money |
| writs of assistance | legal documents that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled |
| resolution | a formal expreesion of opinion |
| boycott | to refuse to buy items from a particular country |
| nonimportation | the act of not importing or using certain goods |
| repeal | to cancel an act or law |
| effigiies | rag figure representing an unpopular individual |
| propaganda | ideas of information designed and spread to influnce opinion |
| committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas through the colonists |
| militias | a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies |
| minutemen | companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight in a minute notice |
| loyalists | american colonists who remained loyal to brtian and opposed the war for independence |
| patriots | American colonists who were determined to fight the British until american independence was won |
| petition | a formal request |
| preamble | the introduction to a formal document, especially the constatution |
| sugar act | lowered the tax on molasses imported by the colonist |
| stamp act | a tax placed on all printed materialin the colonies |
| tea act | gave the east india company premissioncto ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes usually placed on tea |
| coercive act | harsh laws intended to punish the people of massachusets for their resistance |
| what were the coercive acts known as | intolerable acts |
| proclamation of 1763 | prohibits colonists from moving west of the appalachin mountains |
| what di the second continental congress do | established a post office continental army printed money governed the colonies |
| who wrote "common sense" | Thomas pain |
| where was the shot heard around the world | lexington |
| boston tea party | when the sons of liberty dressed up as mohawks and took the tea and dumped in the harbor |
| who was a hero then became a trader | benedict arnold |
| who wrote the decleration of independence | john hancock |
| who was the leader of the continental army | george washinton |
| hessians | german soldiers |
| who was the first post office general | ben franklin |
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