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HFSJ 8th grade Road to Revolution Vocabulary Terms Chapter 5 American Stories

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boycott
A refusal to buy or use goods and services.
militia
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
Stamp Act
1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
Sugar Act
law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies
Proclamation of 1763
Act passed by England prohibiting colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
Quartering Act
an act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists
Sons of Liberty
Organization to protest unfair taxes. These men joined together to go against the stamp act, patriots, lead boycotts
Boston Massacre
incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists
Committees of Correspondence
organized network for passing along news of British activity to the colonies
Townshend Acts
A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
Boston Tea Party
protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
Tea Act
1773; placed a tax on an item to help save the British East India Company; colonists boycotted
Loyalists
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
Patriots
American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
Intolerable Acts
series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party. Colonist name for the Coercive Acts
minutemen
citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice
First Continental Congress
1774 meeting of colonial delegates to protest the Intolerable Acts
Second Continental Congress
group of representatives from the colonies who in 1776 voted to declare independence from Britain
unalienable right
rights that cannot be taken away
Continental Army
Army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by General George Washington
Declaration of Independence
document stating that the thirteen colonies were separate from Great Britain
grievance
a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.
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