Vocab quiz for History

A form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

• Boycott

• Currency

• Duty

• Boston Tea Party

The British law that regulated paper money in the American colonies.

• Currency Act

• Milita

• Quartering Act

• Repeal

A tax on imports

• Duty

• Boston Massacre

• Earthworks

• Herssians

An American colonial milita member who was ready to join in combat at a moment's notice.

• Minuteman

• Herssians

• Patriot

• Writ of Assitance

A set of British laws that placed duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint; required colonists to purchase from Britian.

• Townshed Acts

• Loyalist

• Repeal

• Sons of Liberty

The British law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers.

• Stamps Act

• Tyranny

• Revenue

• Repeal

Military force made up of local citizens to help protect their town, land, or nation

• Milita

• Quartering Act

• boycott

• Duty

The 1773 incident in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped their tea in protest of British taxed on the colonists.

• Boston Tea Party

• Commitee of Correspondence

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

Unjust rule by an absolute ruler

• Tyranny

• Sugar Act

• Boston Massacre

• drumling

The physical features of the land.

• Terrain

• Unalienable right

• Minuteman

• Loyalist