Vocabulary
Acts of Parliament
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Final Question
(The bottom one)
200

An agreement between countries that they need to follow. Sometimes ends wars.

Treaty

200

A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that required the American colonists to pay a tax on various paper documents, such as newspapers, legal papers, and cards.

Stamp Act

200

A law passed in 1764 by the British Parliament lowered the tax on tea, making it cheaper than the smuggled tea that many colonists preferred.

Sugar Act

400

To formally, remove a law that is in effect.

Repeal

400

A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that required the American colonists to provide housing and food for the British soldiers.

Quartering Act


400

Lose 400 

Too bad. 

400

The king saying no to a law that the colonists want to pass

Veto

600

A term that describes an economic system, it was also based on the idea that the wealth of a nation.

Mercantilism

600

A law passed by the British Parliament in 1773 that its main purpose was to help the British East India Company, which was in financial trouble, by saying that the American colonies could only buy from them.

Tea Act


600

When were women allowed to vote? (what year) 

(2x points if you say the day and month) 

August 18, 1920

800

People who love and support their country, especially in times of war or crisis.

AND

Those who were loyal to the king.

Patriots 

AND

Loyalists 

800

What Act were a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies. (2x points if you say another name for it.

The Navigation Acts (2x if you say Acts of Trade)

800

They had to take control of the house and do double the work when the men went to work (2x if you can name 3 things that they did in war and their name)

Women; Cooks, seamstresses, nurses, scavengers of battlefield equipment, purring water on the cannons, and bury the dead. 

 Molly Pitcher

1000

What is the name of the treaties and years of these wars. 

French and Indian War.

Ended Revolutionary War.

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

1000

This Act was a series of five punishment laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. (2x points if you say another word for it)

Intolerable Acts (2x points if you say Coercive Acts)

1000

ONLY THE PERSON WHO PICKS IT CAN ANSWER

For risking it and trying to get 1000 points, you get 1000 points for free. 

Also 

Everyone can answer this question

Heads or Tails

Or you cannot answer this question.

TAILS

1000

What were the two of the Iroquois nations, that sided with the Americans for Revolution which later became a civil war

The Oneidas and the Tuscaroras tribes.