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chapter 5

vocabulary

Question: What were the Writs of Assistance?
Answer: Writs of Assistance is a permit that allows customs officers to search anywhere for smuggled goods.

Question: What is a Boycott?
Answer: Boycott is to refuse to buy items from other countries.

Question: What is Propaganda?
Answer: Information made to spread to change peoples opinions.

Question: What are the militias?
Answer: Militias are groups of civilians that were trained to fight in emergences.

Question: What is the Committee of Correspondence?
Answer: An organization that would spread the political ideas through the colonies.

important events

Question: What was the Stamp Act?
Answer: This was a law that put taxes on printing items.

Question: What was the Sugar Act?
Answer: This was an act that lowered the taxes of imported molasses and other sugar products.

Question: What was the Townshend Acts?
Answer: They were a set of laws that put taxes on important goods such as glass, tea, and paper.

Question: What was the Boston Massacre?
Answer: This was a fight between the Boston colonists and british soldiers.

Question: What was the Boston Tea Party?
Answer: This was when men from the colonies dressed as Mohawks and through the tea that they just got overboard.

vocabulary 2

Question: What are the Loyalists?
Answer: The american colonist who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence.

Question: What are the Patriots?
Answer: They are american colonists who wanted americas independence.

Question: What is a Preamble?
Answer: The introduction to informal document aseptically the constitution of independence;.

Question: What is a debate?
Answer: A discussion by different points of view.

Question: What is status?
Answer: Rank or position.

Important people

Question: Who is Paul Revere?
Answer: Paul Revere is a silver smith. He was a patriot.

Question: Who was Patrick Henry?
Answer: He was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses.

Question: Who is Samuel Adams?
Answer: He helped start an organization called, Sons of Liberty to protest the stamp act.

Question: Who is Crispus Attucks?
Answer: He was a dockworker who was part african and part native american. He was killed in the Boston Massacre.

Question: Who is George III?
Answer: He was the king of London.

What people did.

Question: What did John Adams do?
Answer: He was a lawyer.

Question: What did John Jay do?
Answer: He was also a lawyer.

Question: What did Richard Henry Lee?
Answer: He outspoke defenders of colonial rights.

Question: What did George washington do?
Answer: He formed the militia.

Question: What did Patrick Henry do?
Answer: Patrick Henry also outspoke the defenders of colonial rights.