Chapter 3 Vocab Part 1

Question 1

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa. The route was a triangle

Answer 1

Triangular trade

Question 2

A horrible voyage that traded slaves over the mid atlantic.

Answer 2

Middle Passage

Question 3

A religious movement that went through the colonies

Answer 3

Great Awakening

Question 4

A committee that got in touch with each-other and other towns and colonies. The people wanted to challenge British laws

Answer 4

Committees of Correspondence

Question 5

An act that required the people of the colonies to pay for a seal or a stamp that they had to have on papers.

Answer 5

Stamp Act 1765

Question 6

A standoff between the British and the Boston’s in which the Red Coats killed 5.

Answer 6

Boston Massacre

Question 7

This act allowed the British East India Company to directly sell tea to the American Colonists.

Answer 7

Tea Act

Question 8

When angry colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor.

Answer 8

Boston Tea Party

Question 9

This Act was issued to punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston Harbor, Massachusetts’ Charter was cancelled, Royals committed of crimes went to a British Trial, colonists had to house British Soldiers, a large amount of land was given to Quebec, and General Thomas Gage became governor.

Answer 9

Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

Question 10

And intellectual and scientific movement.

Answer 10

Enlightenment era

Question 11

This man told dramatic sermons for sinners to repent. Was one of the most important leaders in the great awakening

Answer 11

Jonathon Edwards

Question 12

A local leader who believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission.

Answer 12

Samuel Adams

Question 13

This act reduced the powers of the English Monarch.

Answer 13

English Bill of Rights