Vocab 1
Boycott
What is protesting by refusing to use or buy a good or service?
A war between the British and French that lasted 10 years along the Ohio River.
What is the French & Indian War?
A person who represents others at a convention or conference.
What are delegates?
Four laws that forced the colonies to obey Great Britian.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Act
What is a law?
This declared that Native Americans could have the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Coerce
What is to force?
The event in which five people were killed outside a Customs House on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Proclamation
What is an official public announcement?
A law that ordered colonists to provide places to live, food, fuel, and transportation to British troops.
What is the Quartering Act?
The phrase that angry colonists yelled during their protests.
What is "No taxation without representation!"?
A meeting of delegates from 12 colonies, held to present complaints to King George III, to set up a boycott of British goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The lawmaking part of the British government.
What is parliament?
Tax on paper, lead, glass, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
To cancel, or undo, a law.
What is repeal?
The event in which angry colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves.
What is a massacre?
A tax on newspapers, pamphlets, marriage licenses, cards, calendars, and other printed papers.
What is the Stamp Act?
Goods brought into a country, especially for sale.
What is an import?
What is the Committees of Correspondence?