Chapter 10 vocabulary

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

A comparison saying something is something, or overreacting.

Question 2

Debts

Answer 2

Money that is owned 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 had no say in making the law that created the tax. American colonist were angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British parliament, where they had no representatives ( people who could vote on tax).

Question 5

Protest

Answer 5

To explain 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 colonist did not have the right to elect representatives to Parliament.

Question 7

Repealed

Answer 7

To take back, or to cancel, a law.