Chapter 11 Vocabulary for United States: Adventures in Time and Place (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill)
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history social studies vocab vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 assembly (1) | A lawmaking body. |
| town meeting (1) | Gathering of a town's citizens to discuss and solve local problems. |
| militia (1) | A group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution. |
| delegate (1) | A member of an elected assembly. |
| liberty (2) | Freedom. |
| rebel (2) | To oppose those in charge, even to the point of fighting them with weapons, because of different ideas about what is right. |
| Stamp Act (2) | A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards. |
| treason (2) | The betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy. |
| Sons of Liberty (2) | Groups of colonists who organized themselves to protest against the British government. |
| repeal (2) | To withdraw or cancel. |
| Townshend Acts (2) | Taxes passed by Parliament in 1767 for goods brought into the colonies. |
| boycott (2) | To refuse to do business or have contact with a person, group, country, or product. |
| Committees of Correspondence (2) | Groups organized in the 1770s to keep colonists informed of important events. |
| Boston Tea Party (2) | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. |
| Intolerable Acts (2) | The laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 that closed Boston Harbor, dissolved the Massachusetts assembly, and forced Boston colonists to house British soldiers. |
| First Continental Congress (3) | The assembly of colonial delegates from every colony except Georgia that met in 1774 in Philadelphia to oppose the Intolerable Acts. |
| petition (3) | A written request signed by many people. |
| minutemen (3) | Well-trained volunteer soldiers who defended the American colonies against the British at a minute's notice. |
| American Revolution (3) | The war between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies from 1775 to 1783 that led to the founding of the United States of America. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill (3) | Costly British "victory" in 1775 over Colonial forces at a site near Charlestown, Massachusetts. |
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