Chapter 5 Lesson 1 Vocabulary

lawmaking body

• debt

• congress

• Stamp Act

• custom

money owed

• custom

• congress

• repeal

• debt

a tax passed by Britain to pay for the French and Indian War; taxed every piece of printed paper in the colonies

• Stamp Act

• Paper Act

• Townshend Acts

a secret group of men formed to protect colonists' rights and protest British taxation

• Townshend Act

• Sons of Liberty

• Stamp Act

refusal to buy British products as part of a protest

• debt

• tax

• repeal

• boycott

a series of acts that placed taxes on products coming into the colonies

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

a tax

• custom

• levy

• tariff

tax collections

• custom

• tariff

• tax

• collection

to take away

• debt

• levy

• repeal

competition between two people or groups

• parliament

• revolution

• rival