Ch.10 vocab

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated. With metaphor, the qualities of one thing are figuratively carried over to another.

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 back.

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

Laws created or a 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

Forcing people to pay taxes when they had no say in making the law that created the tax. American colonists were angry about paying the tax that were passed by the British parliament, were they had no representative ( 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 the congress in the United States. The American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to parliament.

Question 7

Repealed

Answer 7

To take back, or to cancel, a law.