Social Studies II
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- Stamp Act
- a tax that the British Parliment placed on newspapers and offiicial documents sold in the American colonies
- tax
- money that citizens pay to support the cost of government
- immigrant
- one who leaves him or her hometo live in a new or different country
- militia
- an army of citizens called into service durning emergencies
- treaty
- a formal agreement between two or more nations
- Parliament
- the legislative branch of government in Great Britain
- congress
- the lawmaking body of a state or the nation
- Virgina Resolves
- Formal statements of the House of Burgesses protesting the Stamp Act in 1765
- capital
- a city or town where the goverment of a state or nation meets
- First Continential Congress
- a 1774 meeting of representetives from the American colonies held in Philadelphia
- ally
- a partner or supporter who pledges friendship and help
- Committees of Correspondence
- Colonial groups organized in the 1770s to share news about opposition to English taxes and rules