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SS Unit 4 Chapter 8
Vocabualry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parliment | Britain's law -making assembly |
| Stamp Act | law passed by Parliment in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 Colonies |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Sona of Liberty | groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution |
| Townsehend Acts | laws passed by Parliment in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 Colonies from Britain. |
| boycott | organized refusal to buy goods |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Daughters of Liberty | groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace British goods |
| Boston Massacre | event in 1770 in Boston which killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them |
| Committee of Correspondence | groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British |
| Tea Act | law passed by Parliment in the early 1770s stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 Colonies. |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed by British Parliment to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party |
| Patriots | American colonists who opposd British rule |
| Loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to othe British during the American Revolution |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia, held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts |
| militia | volunteer armies |
| minutemen | colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| American Revolution | the war between the 13 Colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 Colonies won their independence and became the United States |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusettes, in the American revolution on June 17, 1775 |
| Second Continental Congress | congress of American leaders which first met in 1775, declared independence in 1776, and helped lead the United States during the Revolution |
| Continental Army | army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by George Washington |
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Donna Porter
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