History chapter 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Quartering act | Act which required colonies to provide food and lodging for British troops |
| Sugar act | (1764) British deeply in debt partl to French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors. |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Stamp act | A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies |
| Stamp act congress | group of colonists who protested the Stamp Act, saying that Parliament couldn't tax without colonist' consent |
| Sons of liberty | A radical political organization formed after the passage of the Stamp Act to protest various British acts; organization used both peaceful and violent means of protest |
| Speculate | to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds |
| Boycott | refuse to sponsor |
| Proclamation of 1763 | law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains |
| Declaratory act | Act passed in 1766 just after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Stated that Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases. |
| Boston massacre | The first bloodshed of the Amercan Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five americans |
| Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. |
| Townshend Acts | A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea |
| Writs of assistance | legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled |
| Daughters of liberty | An organization formed by women prior to the American Revolution They got together to protest treatment of the colonies by their British Rulers |
| Committees of Correspondence | Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies |
| Boston tea party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor |
| Tea act | tax on tea; made the east india company the only tea company allowed to colonists; reason for Tea Party (1773) |
| Minutemen | Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds |
| Intolerable acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British |
| Justice act | Colonist accused of capital crimes would be sent to Britain for trial, juries no longer made up of peers |
| 1st Continental Congress | September 1774, 12 delegates met in Philly to discuss the Intolerable Acts, only Georgia did not attend. The result was a boycott on all British goods, stop exporting goods to Britain, and they urged each colony to set up and train it's own militia. |
| Lexington-Concord | the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) |
| Loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence |
| Patriots | Colonists who wanted independence from Britain |
| Militia | civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army |
| 2nd Continental Congress | Congress of American leaders which first met in 1775, declared independence in 1776, and helped lead the United States during the Revolution |
| Siege | the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack |
| Artillery | an army unit that uses big guns |
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