History unit 5 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
standing army | standing or permanent army |
smuggler | They are people who try to smuggle goods |
Committes of Correspondence | comittees created by the massachuses house of representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share inforation about resisting British laws |
boycott | The first one started in New York in 1765. It soon spread to other colonies |
Stamps Act of 1765 | a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and leagel documents |
Sons of Liberty | At the same time tax collectors in Massachusetts seized the ship Liberty on suspicion of smuggleing |
Declaratory Act | Act that allowed to have parliment what so ever |
Townshend Acts | The colonists responded to the Ats by once again boycotting many british goods |
Boston Massacre | This is was what the Colonists called the shottings ____________. |
propaganda | a story giving only one side in an argument |
Boston Tea Party | On the night of December 16, 1773, colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three teafilled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests in Boston harbor. |
Intslerable/ Coercive Acts | laws passed by parliament to punish the colonists for teh boston tea party and to tigghtin goverment control of the colonies |
Proclamation of 1763 | British leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto american Indian lands |
Treaty of Paris 1763 | a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the Uninted States |
mercantilism | an economic system based on trade and currency |
intrepid | fearless or persistent; characterized by bravery or endurance |
provincials | people of local or restricted intrests or out looks lacking polish or refinement |
stamp Act Congress | an event where colinists protested the stamp act |
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