Paulson 8 Vocabulary August 12-16, 2019
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- Q1An overthrow and replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.revolution30sEditDelete
- Q2Legal document that enabled officers to search colonial homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled.writs of assistance30sEditDelete
- Q3An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.Boston Massacre (1770)30sEditDelete
- Q4Colonial response to the Tea Act; 30-130 colonists - dressed as indians - boarded British ships and dumped the tea into Boston Harbor.Boston Tea Party (1773)30sEditDelete
- Q5Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston residents for the Tea Party.Intolerable Acts30sEditDelete
- Q6An organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies.committee of correspondence30sEditDelete
- Q7A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.Sons of Liberty30sEditDelete
- Q8British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution.redcoats30sEditDelete
- Q9A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies.boycott30sEditDelete
- Q10American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty; signed the Declaration of IndependenceSamuel Adams30sEditDelete
- Q11A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea.Townshend Acts30sEditDelete
- Q12Incoming money.revenue30sEditDelete
- Q13A body of representatives that makes laws for a nationParliament30sEditDelete
- Q14Opposition between individuals or groups; stress.tensions30sEditDelete
- Q15Person who illegally trades in goods that are restricted or prohibited.smuggler30sEditDelete
- Q16To cancel a law.repeal30sEditDelete
- Q17Colonists who supported the British government during the American RevolutionLoyalists30sEditDelete
- Q18American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was wonPatriots30sEditDelete
- Q19Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies (1765).Quartering Act30sEditDelete
- Q20(1764) British Parliament (deeply in debt partly to French & Indian War) placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, molasses and other items.Sugar Act30sEditDelete