module 3 vocab section 1

Question 1

proclamation act of 1763

Answer 1

law limiting the area of english settlement

Question 2

sugar act

Answer 2

law passed by parliament to try to raise money

Question 3

stamp act

Answer 3

law passed by parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers

Question 4

townshend acts

Answer 4

laws passed by parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonists

Question 5

committees of correspondence

Answer 5

a networks of communication set up in massachusetts and virginia to inform other colonists of ways that britain threatened colonial rights

Question 6

intolerable acts

Answer 6

a series of laws set up by parliament to punish massachusetts for its protests against britain

Question 7

martial law

Answer 7

rule by the military

Question 8

minutemen

Answer 8

civilian soldiers

Question 9

olive branch petition

Answer 9

an offer of peace sent by the second continental congress to king george iii

Question 10

common sense

Answer 10

pamphlet written by thomas payne that attacked the monarchy

Question 11

declaration of independence

Answer 11

document that said the united states was an independent nation

Question 12

inflation

Answer 12

rise in the price of goods

Question 13

profiteering

Answer 13

selling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit

Question 14

egalitarianism

Answer 14

a belief in equality