Vocabulary Study Guide

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Chapter 5

• Vocabulary Study Guide

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Placed a tax on almost all printed material in
the colonies

• Stamp Act

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Taxes on imported goods paid at the port of entry

• Townshend Acts

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Information designed to influence opinion

• propaganda

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Legal documents that allowed customs officers to
enter any location to search for smuggled goods

• Writs of assistance

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Rag figures

• effigies

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Member of the House of Burgesses who wanted to
take action against the Stamp Act

• Patrick Henry
  

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cancel

• repeal

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An organization that took to the streets to
protest the Stamp Act

• Sons of Liberty

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Gave Parliament the right to tax and make
decisions for the British Colonies

• Declaratory Act

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A clash between the British and the Americans in
Boston at the Customhouse

• Boston Massacre

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A formal expression of opinion

• resolution

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Refuse to buy

• boycott

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Allowed the East India Tea Company to sell tea
very cheaper than the colonial merchants

• Tea Act of 1773

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Militia who could be ready to fight at a moments
notice

• Minutemen

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Harsh laws intended to punish the people of
Massachusetts for their resistance

• Coercive Acts

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An act of protest by the Sons of Liberty where
tea was thrown from the ship into the Boston
Harbor

• Boston Tea Party

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introduction

• preamble

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Incoming money

• revenue

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Colonists last attempt to maintain peace with
Britain yet protect their rights

• Olive Branch Peition

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Lowered the tax on molasses imported by the
colonists to stop the smuggling

• Sugar Act

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The political body that represented American
interest and challenged British control

• Continental Congress

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circulated writings about colonists grievances
against Britain

• Committee of correspondence

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American colonists who stayed loyal to Britain

• Loyalists

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American colonists determined to fight the
British for independence

• Patriots

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A pamphlet by Thomas Paine that argued reasons
for independence from England

• Common Sense