Daily Vocab Quiz 2

Question 0

Yeoman

Answer 0

Member of a class of free, landowning small farmers in England.

Question 1

Gentry

Answer 1

People of “gentle birth”, good breeding, or high social position; upper or ruling class of english landowners ranking just below nobility

Question 2

Piedmont

Answer 2

Area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or range; plateau region of the eastern US extending from NY to Alabama between the Appalachian mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain

Question 3

Autonomous

Answer 3

Self-governing, independent

Question 4

Urbanization

Answer 4

The growth of cities

Question 5

Paradox

Answer 5

Statement or proposition that seems self contradictory, absurd, or contrary to common sense… Yet which is perhaps true

Question 6

Boycott

Answer 6

Organized refusal to buy or use products, or trade, for the purpose of persuading, intimidating, or coercing

Question 7

Libel

Answer 7

Injuring a person’s reputation by WRITING negative things about them

Question 8

Slander

Answer 8

Injuring a persons reputation by SPEAKING negative things about them

Question 9

Salutary neglect

Answer 9

Unofficial British colonial policy that relaxed supervision of internal colonial affairs such as taxation and enforcement of the navigation acts, which contributed to the rise of American self gov’t

Question 10

Virtual representation

Answer 10

Notion that the British House of Commons in parliament represented all British subjects, wherever they lived and regardless of enter they had voted for their representatives

Question 11

Tariff

Answer 11

Tax imposed on products imported from abroad for purposes of protection of raising revenue

Question 12

Cede

Answer 12

To give up possession of, or formally surrender to another by a treaty

Question 13

Rhetorical

Answer 13

Pertaining to the art of influencing the thought or conduct of those who are listening

Question 14

Despotism

Answer 14

When govt exercises absolute power or control, tyranny

Question 15

Mercenary

Answer 15

Professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army

Question 16

Tories

Answer 16

Name gives during the America revolution to colonists who remained loyal to England

Question 17

Whigs

Answer 17

British political faction with a reputation for supporting liberal principles, reform, and the House of Commons controlling tax policy rather than the monarchy