Unit 7 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Standing Army | An army that remains in a particular area to control or protect it. |
Smuggler/Smuggling | Illegal trading to avoid paying taxes. |
Committees of Correspondence | Committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws. |
Boycott | When people refused to buy British goods. |
Stamp 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 legal documents. |
Proclamation of 1763 | A British law passed that banned settling west of the Appalachian mountains. |
Sons of Liberty | A secret society founded by Boston colonists that protested against British laws, that sometimes resorted to violence. Samuel Adams was the leader one of the many founders. |
Stamp Act Congress | In October 1765, delegates from nine colonies met in New York and issued a declaration that the Stamp Act was a violation of their rights and liberties. |
Declaratory Act | A declaration issued by Parliament which stated that Parlament had the power to make all laws for the colonies. |
Townshend Acts | Passed in June 1767 by Parliament that placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. |
Boston Massacre | An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists after kids threw rocks at them, killing five people. |
Propaganda | Material designed to sway opinion for or against a person or idea/ one-sided |
Boston Tea Party | A protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. |
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts | Laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies. |
Treaty of Paris 1763 | The treaty that ended the French and Indian War. |
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