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Chapter 6 Vocab E.L.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 sugar, 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 offical stamp showing a tax had been paid | Stamp Act |
| 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 |
| Crispus Attucks | |
| a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and estabilished 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 smiggled goods | writs of assistance |
| Samuel Adams | |
| a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed | Boston Massacre |
| John Adams | |
| a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs | commitee of coresspondence |
| 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; an emergency military force that is not part of the regular army | militia |
| members of the colonial militia who were trained to respond "at a minute's warning" | Minutemen |
| 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 uphols colonial rights | First Continental Congress |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Benedict Arnold | |
| the document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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