Vocabulary
To carry in or bring out in a secret way. Colonists did this to avoid paying British taxes.
What is smuggle?
War fought in the colonies from 1754 to 1763 between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley area.
What is the French and Indian War?
10 x 1/3
What is 3 1/3
What is Mohawk Indians?
A refusal to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest. The colonists did this to avoid paying British taxes.
What is boycott?
British tax on printed material such as newspapers and legal documents
What is the Stamp Act?
Reasonable or unreasonable? 64 x 1/3 = 125
What is unreasonable? A fraction of a whole number will be less than the whole number.
These are the names of the 3 Watson children.
What is Kenny, Joetta and Byron.
To take back or cancel a law. This was done to the Stamp Act in colonial America.
What is repeal?
Secret society formed to oppose British policies
What is the Sons of Liberty?
7 + 3 x 2 = n
What is 13?
The genre of The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963.
What is historical fiction?
Danger
What is peril?
Year in which the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is 1773?
1/4 x 1/3 = n
What is 1/12?
Research shows that the rate at which you read impacts your ability to _____ texts.
What is comprehend or understand?
The name of a law-making body such as Parliament or the House of Burgesses.
What is legislature?
Who represented the British soldiers at their trial in Boston following the Boston Massacre?
Who is John Adams?
2/3 x 1/2 = n
What is 1/3?
We are what we repeatedly do. _____, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
What is excellence?