Chapter 6
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 king george 3 | king of England during the American revolution |
| quartering act | law that required the colonies to house and supply british soldiers |
| revenue | government income |
| sugar act | British tax on imported sugar and molasses |
| stamp act | law that taxed many printed materials in the colonies |
| Patrick Henry | a member of the Virginia house of burgesses who opposed British taxes |
| boycott | refusal to buy goods |
| sons of liberty | a secret society organize to oppose British policies |
| townshend acts | plan passes by parliament in 1767 to help raise revenue in th colonies |
| writ of assistance | search warrant |
| samuel Adams | founder of the son of liberty |
| crispus attucks | African American killed by British soldiers in the boston massacre |
| boston massacre | confllict between colonists and british soldiers in which five colonists were killed |
| John Adams | A cousin of Samuel Adams and a lawyer who defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre |
| committee of correspondence | A group that exchanged letters on colonial affairs with similar groups |
| Boston Tea Party | Protest against the Tea Act in which colonists dumoed British tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by Parliament pushing Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | Meeting held by the colonies in Philidelphia in 1774 to decide what to do about the problems with Britain |
| militia | A force of armed civilians who pledge to defend their community |
| Minuteman | A colonist who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| Paul Revere | A patriot who helped warn colonists about British movements |
| Lexington and Concord | Sites of the first battles of the Revolutionary War |
| Loyalist | A colonist who was loyal to Britain |
| Patriot | A colonist who supported the colonial rebels |
| Ethan allen | Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who helped to capture Fort Ticonderoga |
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