Chapter 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 possible

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 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 have 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 law making part of the British government, similar to the congress in the United States. The American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives into the Parliament

Question 7

Repeal

Answer 7

To take back, or to cancel, a law