Ch. 10 vocab

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 2

Debts

Answer 2

Money that is owed to someone else. People have debts when they have borrowed money and promised to pay it back.

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

Laws created or passed by government.

Question 4

Taxation without representation

Answer 4

Forcing people to pay taxes when they have had no say in making the law that created the tax. American colonists were angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British Parliament, where they had no representatives (people who could vote on the tax).

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 congress in the United States. The American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to Parliament

Question 7

Repealed

Answer 7

revoke or annul (a law or congressional act