"DMS" The American Journey Ch. 5
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| revenue | Money that comes into the country (British taxed the colonies)
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| writs of assistance | allowed customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods (illegal trading goods)
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| resolution | a formal expression of opinion (passed by Virginia assembly saying only they only had the right to tax its citizens)
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| effigy | rag figures/dolls (like scarecrows that represented tax collectors)
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| boycott | refuse to buy
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| nonimporation | agreements signed by merchants, artisans, and farmers pledging not to buy or use goods imported from Great Britain
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| repeal | cancel (The Stamp Act was repealed or cancelled)
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| propaganda | information that is made to influence someone’s opinion (change their mind or think a particular way)
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| committee of correspondence | an organization that sent around writings about what the colonist didn’t like about Britain
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| militia | groups of citizen soldiers (formed to fight against the British)
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| minutemen | soldiers who claimed they would be ready to fight on a minute’s notice
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| loyalist | colonists that chose to be on Britain’s side because they did not consider unfair taxes to be a reason to rebel against their home country
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| patriot | colonists who were determined to fight the British to the end until American independence was won
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