Vocab
A British Law that regulated money in the American Colonies
Currency Act
A tax on imports
Duty
A right that cannot be taken away
Unalienable Right
Unjust rule by an absolute ruler
Tyranny
The British law that lowered the duty on molasses to cut out smuggling, so that the British would get the revenue
Sugar act
Military force made of local citizens to protect their town
Militia
Money that is received
Revenue
Human-made land modifications
Earthwork
A British law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and publishing papers
Stamp Act
To cancel or nullify, especially a law
Repeal
The group of merchant, shopkeepers and craftsmen who successfully opposed the Stamp Act by establishing networks to boycott British goods
Sons of Liberty
An American colonist who supported the right of the American colonies to govern themselves
Patriot
A smooth-sloped hill made of glacial sediments
Drumlin
One of several British Laws that requires American colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers stationed in North America
Quartering Act
The British law that regulated paper money in the American colonies
Currency Act
An American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution
Loyalist
Large guns that can fire over a long distance
An American colonial militia member who was ready to join in combat at a moment's notice
Minutemen
An objection or reason to complain
Grievance
A law requiring colonists to stay East of a line drawn on a map along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
The study of the processes that shape Earth's rocks and landforms
Geology
The physical features of the land
Terrain
The British laws passed to punish the people of Boston after the Boston Tea Party; also called the Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
The British law stating only the East India Company was allowed to sell tea to the American colonists
Tea Act
In the Revolutionary era, a group of colonists whose duty it was to spread news about protests against the British
Committee of Correspondence