Social Studies Chapter 7

Front 1

a government in which the people take part is ______

Back 1

demoncracy

Front 2

friends in a war are ______

Back 2

ally (allies)

Front 3

the law-making branch

Back 3

legislature

Front 4

the part of the British government in which members make laws

Back 4

parliament

Front 5

control over someone or something

Back 5

authority

Front 6

money paid to a government to run the country

Back 6

tax

Front 7

a government in which the people make their own laws

Back 7

self-government

Front 8

The monarch and British parliament governed Britain and the ____

Back 8

British Colonies

Front 9

The first colonial legislature was known as the ____ and was established in the Virginia colony in 1619

Back 9

House of Burgesses

Front 10

Each colony had a ____ whose job was to make sure that the laws that colonial legislatures made were one the British government would agree with

Back 10

governor

Front 11

The British colonists, their Indian allies, and the British army fought against the ____ and _______.

Back 11

French and Indian Allies

Front 12

Great Britain's Parliament decided the colonies should pay for the _______

Back 12

war

Front 13

The _____ built forts on land in the OHio River valley that was claimed by both the French and Britain

Back 13

French

Front 14

The British won the war and French Canada became a British colony. The British also gained land between the ____ Mountains and the _______ River.

Back 14

Appalachian: Mississippi

Front 15

a colonist who was for the British ( Tories)

Back 15

loyalist

Front 16

a meeting of representatives who have the power to make decisions

Back 16

congress

Front 17

freedom

Back 17

liberty

Front 18

what the people of a community think

Back 18

public opinion

Front 19

a request for action signed by many people

Back 19

petition

Front 20

a tax of goods brought into a county

Back 20

tariff

Front 21

the killing of people who cannot defend themselves

Back 21

massacre

Front 22

working against one's own government

Back 22

treason

Front 23

to undo or take away a law or tax

Back 23

repeal

Front 24

a refusal to buy goods or services

Back 24

boycott

Front 25

Colonists paid ___ on goods coming to the colonies from other places.

Back 25

tax

Front 26

Colonists that agreed with the British view were called _____

Back 26

loyalists

Front 27

A tax on ___. Such as _____ or ______.

Back 27

paper; newspaper; cards

Front 28

The stamp act Angered the colonists because it was ____ without _____

Back 28

taxation without representation

Front 29

_____ _________ spoke out against the Stamp Act and loyalist accused him of ______

Back 29

Patrick Henry; treason

Front 30

Met in groups such as the _____ and _________ of Liberty to talk and act against the new taxes.

Back 30

Sons; Daughters

Front 31

People Protest in Different Ways:
Asked people to _____ any British goods.

Back 31

boycott

Front 32

People Protest in Different Ways:
Sent representatives such as_____ to speak to Parliament.

Back 32

Benjamin Franklin

Front 33

The Stamp Act Congress:
A. Caused parliament to _____ the Stamp Act. Parliament responded by making a new law known as the Townshend Act and sending more soldiers to the colonies to prove Britains authority

Back 33

repeal

Front 34

Boston Massacre
1. Date: _______
2. A fight broke because ___________________
3. ______________ who was a runaway slave
a. led the charge against the British soldiers
b. was the first American killed for Independence

Back 34

March 5, 1770
Colonists were shouting insults
Crispus Attucles

Front 35

freedom=

Back 35

right

Front 36

to use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving the harbor

Back 36

blockade

Front 37

a group set up in each of the colonies to quickly share information about taxes and other issues by writing letters to groups in other colonies

Back 37

Committee of Correspondence

Front 38

a member of the Massachusetts colony militia who could quickly be ready to right the British

Back 38

minuteman

Front 39

a meeting of representatives of the British colonies

Back 39

Continental Congress

Front 40

a colonist who was against British rule

Back 40

Patriot

Front 41

the result of an action

Back 41

consequence

Front 42

to provide pay or housing

Back 42

quarter

Front 43

Committees of Correspondence:
Were set up by ________ ________ as a way for colonies to communicate with each other regarding what was being done to protest the latest British laws.

Back 43

Samuel Adams

Front 44

Boston Tea Party:
Some colonies decided to ________ British tea and turned away ships trying to carry British tea into their ports.

Back 44

boycott

Front 45

Parliament punished the colonists by:
1. Ordering colonists to pay for the destroyed tea
2. Ordered colonist to _____ British soldiers
3. Made Thomas Gage the Colonial Governor of Massachusetts. Colonists called these punishments ____

Back 45

quarter ; Inderable Acts

Front 46

In Massachusetts Bay ship captains refused to be turned away __________ disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded the ships at night and threw the tea into the harbor.

Back 46

Sons of Liberty

Front 47

The Continental Congress:
Agreed to stop all trade with ________

Back 47

Britian

Front 48

Colonies would no longer obey British laws when the laws took away their ______

Back 48

Liberty

Front 49

Fighting at Lexington and Concord
___ and _____ rode out to warn that the British were coming

Back 49

Paul Revere; William Dawes