Chapter 6 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Proclamation od 1763 | issued by King George to keep peace by closing off the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains |
Sugar Act | British taxed sugar to pay for war debt |
Quartering Act | passed by the British required colonists to house British troops and provide them with supplies |
Stamp Act | requires all legal and commercial documents to carry and official mark showing a tax had been paid |
Declaratory Act | gave Parliment power over colonies |
Townshend Acts | placed import taxes on such products as glass, paper, lead, paint, and tea |
Tea Act | British taxed tea |
Writs of Assistance | gave British officers the right to search for smuggled goods in a home or business |
Militia | force of armed civilians |
Minutemen | militia trained to be ready at a minutes notice |
Intolerable Act | Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony |
Sons of Liberty | secret society opposing the British |
Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonial protesters |
Boston Tea Party | Men disguised as Mohawks destroyed tea aboard British ships |
First Continental Congress | delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to a) ban trade with Britain b) train troops |
Boycott | refusal to buy certain products |
Patriots | supported colonist |
Loyalist | supported British |
Second Continental COngress | a governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army and approve the Declaration of Independence |
Continental Army | a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 with George Washington as its commanding general |
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