history unit 7 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Smugglers | people who tried to avoid taxes |
Stamp Act | 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 |
Propaganda | material designed to sway opinion for or against a person or ideas/one-sided |
Declaratory Act | a document that stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonists |
Townshend Acts | placed duties on grass, lead, paints, paper, and tea |
Proclamation of 1763 | to avoid more conflict in 1685 King George the third passed a law banning British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. It also ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley |
Treaty of Paris | a peace agreement that officially ended the French and Indian War |
Boycott | people who refuse to buy British goods |
Stamp Act Congress | issued a declaration that the Stamp Act was a violation of their rights and liberty |
Boston Tea Party | a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more that 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor |
Boston Massacre | an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 people |
Standing Army | an army that remains in a particular area to control or protect it |
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts | laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and the tighten government control of the colonies |
Committees of Correspondence | committees created by the Mass. House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British Laws |
Sons of Liberty | a secret society colonists formed used violence to frighten tax collectors |
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