ch. 10 vocab

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Comparing things without using like or as

Question 2

Debts

Answer 2

Money that is owed to someone else. People ( and organizations, such as governments) have debts when they have borrowed money and promised to pay it back

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

Laws created, or passed by a government. For example, the stamp act was a law that was passed by the British parliament.

Question 4

Taxation without representation

Answer 4

The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government’s policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”1.Oct 7, 2020

Question 5

Protest

Answer 5

To complain publicly about something that people believe is wrong or unfair.

Question 6

Parliament

Answer 6

The lawmaking part of the British government, similar to to Congress In the United States. American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to Parliament.

Question 7

Repealed

Answer 7

To take that, or to cancel, a law.