Turmoil over taxatio Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Parliament | representative, law-making body in England |
Stamp Act | law placing taxes on legal documents |
Magna Carta | document colonists believed established the idea that government could not tax without consent |
Petition | written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people |
boycott | a refusal to buy goods and/or services |
repealed | To overturn or cancel |
Townshend Acts | law that placed a tax on Tea |
writs of assistance | document that allowed British to search a ship’s cargo without giving a reason |
Sons of Liberty | group organized by colonial citizens to protest the actions of Britain |
Boston Massacre | Colonial protest which ended with 5 colonist being shot by British soldiers |
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