Social Studies: 4th Grade
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- immigrant
- a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- militia
- army of citizens who serve as soldiers during a time of emergency
- virginia resolves
- formal statements of the House of Burgesses protesting the stamp act in 1765
- treaty
- a written agreement between two or more nations
- committee of correspondence
- groups made in the 1770's to share news about english taxes & rules
- tax
- Money that a government regulary collects from its people
- capital
- is a city that serves as a home of government
- stamp act
- A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies
- first continental congress
- In 1774, meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia
- ally
- a country or group that joins with another for common purpose