Social Studies Quiz Unit 2

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Militia

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An army made up of civilians serving temporarily as soldiers.

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Pontiac's Rebellion

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Unsuccesful attack by Ottowa chief Pontiac and his allies against Britsh Forts on the northwestern frontier in an attemp to drive out European settlers.

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Sugar Act

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Law passed by British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.

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Boycott

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To rufuse to buy certain goods; method often used in protest movements.

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Sons of Liberty

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Secret societies formed in the mid-1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors.

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Townshed Acts

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Law passes by parliament placing duties on certian items imported by the colonists.

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Daughters of Liberty

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Women's group that supported the colonies' resistence to the British by aiding boycotts and other measures.

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Propoganda

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Stories and images designed to support a paticular point of view.

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Boston Tea Party

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Protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

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Albany Plan of Union

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Plan written by Ben Franklin and other colonial delegates that called for the colonies to unit under a common governing body; never passed.

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Proclamation of 1763

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British proclamation banning further colonial settlement west of the Appalachain Mnts and ordering colonists already living there to move.

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Commitees of Correspondence

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Commitees appreved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting the new British laws.

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Stamp Act

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Las passed by Parliament that raised rax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newpapers, legal documents, licenses.

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repeal

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To abolish.

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writs of assistance

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Special speech warrents that allowed colonial tax collectors to search for smuggled goods.

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Boston Massacre

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Incident in which British soldiers fired into a group of colonists, killing 5 people

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Tea Act

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Law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its
low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

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Intolerable Acts

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Four laws passed by Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.