Chapter 10 vocabulary

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

A direct comparison

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 a government.

Question 4

Taxation without representation

Answer 4

Forcing people to pay taxes when they have had no say in making the law the created tax. American colonists were angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British parliament where they had no representatives which were 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Repealed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.