Chapter 5 Vocabulary/People
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- George Grenville
- British finance minister
- Patrick Henry
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-Young member of Virginia House of Burgesses
-Persuaded the burgesses to take action against Stamp Act - Samuel Adams
- -Started an organization called Sons of Liberty
- revenue
- incoming money
- writs of assistance
- legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods
- resolution
- a formal expression of opinion
- effigy
- rag figure representing an unpopular individual
- nonimportation
- an agreement not to import or use certain goods
- repeal
- to cancel an act or law
- Crispus Attucks
- African American dockworker whom some believed to have lead the colonists in the Boston Massacre
- Paul Revere
- Made an engraving about the Boston Massacre
- George III
- King of Britain at the time these events took place
- propaganda
- ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion
- committee of correspondence
- an organization that used meetings, letters,and pamphlets to spread political ideas throught the colonists
- Continental Congress
- -Organization used to represent American interests
- John Adams
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-cousin of Samuel Adams
-successful layer - John Jay
- -Delegate from New York in Continental Congress
- Richard Henry Lee
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-Delegate from Virgina
-One of the most outspoken defenders of colonial rights - George Washington
- -Commander of Continental Army
- Ethan Allen
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-Part of Green Mountain Boys
-Captured Fort Ticonderaga - militia
- a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
- minutemen
- companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight in a minute's notice
- Loyalists
- American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
- Patriots
- American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
- Thomas Jefferson
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-Brilliant thinker and writer
-Member of Virginia House of Burgesses - Thomas Paine
- -Wrote Common Sense
- Abigail Adams
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-John Adam's wife
-Wrote a letter asking why women weren't included in the Declaration of Independence - petition
- a formal request
- preamble
- the introduction to a formal document, especially the Constitution