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CH 5 Vocab AH

Terms in this set (31)

Effigy
a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
Boycott
to abstain from buying or using:
Repeal
to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.
Violate
to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
Propaganda
information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Committee of Correspondence
an intercolonial committee organized 1772 by Samuel Adams in Massachusetts to keep colonists informed of British anticolonial actions and to plan colonial resistance or countermeasures.
Preamble
the introductory part of a statute, deed, or the like, stating the reasons and intent of what follows.
Why did Great Britain feel the need to tax the colonists?
Revenue to pay for the French and Indian war
Why were colonists unhappy with the writs of assistance?
It allowed officials to search almost anywhere
The 1764 Sugar Act lowered the tax on imported molasses, but the colonists were still angered by the act, why?
The Act also allowed officers to seize goods without going to court
In 1765 the Stamp Act outraged the colonists and the Sons of Liberty, led by _Sam Adams_ protested by...
Burning effigies of the unpopular tax collectors
Later 1765 at the Stamp Act Congress sent a letter to the king and Parliament declaring...
that only colonial assemblies could tax the colonists.
The action taken by the colonists to the Stamp Act caused British merchants to lose money. What did the colonists do and what did the British merchants ask Parliament to do?
Colonists boycott British goods, and merchants asked Parliament to repeal the Act.
The colonists proved they would not be forced to pay an internal tax, so Great Britain passed the ________ in 1767 which taxed _____
Townshend Acts
Imported goods
Townshend Acts were highly protested and women made their own ______ and ________
Clothing and tea
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