Chapter 10 vocabulary

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else. It is not meant to be taken literally.

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 promise to pay it back.

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

Laws created or 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 have had no say in making the law that created tax American colonists were angry about paying taxes that were passed by that British parliament where they had no representatives people who could vote on tax.

Question 5

Protests

Answer 5

To complain publicly about something that people believe is wrong or unfair

Question 6

Parliament

Answer 6

The lawmaking part of British government similar to the congress in the United States the representatives to parliament.

Question 7

Repeal

Answer 7

To take back or take cancel a law