Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Main Ideas
Main Ideas
100
incoming money
What is revenue?
100
rag figure representing an unpopular individual
What is effigy?
100
refuse to buy items from a particular country
What is boycott?
100
The killing of 5 colonists by British regulars was known as the _______________
What is Boston Massacre?
100
Event in which 342 chests of tea was thrown overboard a ship at Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party?
200
formal request
What is petition?
200
to cancel an act or law
What is repeal?
200
introduction to a formal document
What is preamble?
200
This act lowered taxes on molasses imported by the colonists
What is Sugar Act?
200
Women that organized groups that supported the boycott of British goods
What is Daughters of Liberty?
300
soldiers who were ready to fight on a minute's notice
What is minutemen?
300
American colonists that remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
What is Loyalist?
300
formal expression of opinion
What is resolution?
300
This act gave the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes
What is Tea Act?
300
Act that included very harsh laws that were intended to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance
What is Coercive Acts?
400
act of no importing or using certain goods
What is nonimportation?
400
American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
What is Patriot?
400
group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
What is militia?
400
This act placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies
What is Stamp Act?
500
legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled
What is writs of assistance?
500
ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion
What is propaganda?
500
organization that spread political ideas through the colonies
What is committee of correspondence?
500
A dockworker that was part African, part Native American who was killed in Boston
Who was Crispus Attucks?
500
This organization met to discuss how the American colonies would challenge British control
What is Continental Congress?
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