Chapter 10 vocab Flashcards
Metaphor
When you compares something
Debts
Money that is opened to someone else. Organizations and people have debts when they borrow money and promise to pay it back.
Acts
Always created or passed by a government. For example the stamp act was a law that was passed by the British parliament.
Taxation without representation
Forcing people to pay taxes when they pay when they have no say in in making the law that created the tax. American colonists where angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British parliament where they had no representatives people who could vote on tax.
Protest
To complain publicly about something that people believe is wrong or unfair.
Replace
take the place of.
Parliament
The law making part of the British government similar to the congress in the United States. The Amir can colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to parliament.