Road To Revolution Quiz

1. a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.

• Squatter

• Smuggle

• 1. Vigilante

• Embargo

move (goods) illegally into or out of a country.

• Smuggle

• Sugar Act

• Embargo

• Squatter

a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land.

• Smuggle

• Boycott

• Cherokee War

• Squatter

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

• Intolerable Acts

• Boycott

• Currency Act

• Stamp Act

was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.

• Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• First Continentant Congress

• Townshend Duties

acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.

• Currency Acts

• Navigation Acts

• Sugar Acts

• Stamp Acts

required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

• Stamp Acts

• Sugar Acts

• Navigation Acts

• Currency Acts

was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.

• Yemasse War

• French and Indian War

• Cherokee War

• Civil War

series of battles and agreements around the period of the U.S. War of Independence that effectively reduced Cherokee power and landholdings in Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and western North and South Carolina, freeing this territory for speculation and settlement by the white man.

• World War 2

• War of 1812

• Cherokee War

• Civil War

duties aimed not merely at regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury.

• Smuggle

• Navigation Acts

• Vigilante

• Townshend Duties