Tensions Between Colonists and Great Britain Vocabulary Quiz

a law

• Act

• Delegates

• Parliament

to protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service

• Act

• Boycotted

• Delegates

people who represent others at a convention or conference

• Boycotted

• Act

• Delegates

the meeting of delegates from 12 colonies, held to present complaints to King George III, to set up a boycott of British goods, and to arrange a second meeting if needed

• Delegates

• Parliament

• First Continental Congress

the murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves

• Imported

• Massacre

• Taxation Without Representation

the lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States

• Delegates

• Parliament

• Region

an official public announcement

• proclamation

• protest

• repealed

an action that shows disapproval or objection to something

• proclamation

• repealed

• protest

to cancel, or undo, a law

• Parliament

• repealed

• protest

being required to pay taxes by a government without having a representative in the government

• Taxation Without Representation

• repealed

• protest