Part 2 Vocabulary Assignment 
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
6:50 AM
Vocabulary Words and Definitions 
Vocab Word 
Definition 
Picture (if possible) 
Example 
Import 
As a verb: (im-PORT) to bring something in from another country, usually for trade.
As a noun: (IM-port) something made or grown in another country that is then shipped here, usually so that it may be resold.
Export
As a verb: to ship goods that are made or grown in one country to another country, where they will be sold.
As a noun: something made or grown in one country that is sent to another country for sale.
Loyalist
A loyalist is any person who is loyal to his or her king.  In the dozen or so years leading up to the Revolutionary War, a Loyalist was a person who continued to support King George III and his policies in the American colonies.  
Boycott
To refuse to deal with a process, an organization or a company as a form or expression of protest against it.  Usually, there is a group of people who agree to boycott rather than just one person.  You could say, “Many colonists boycotted British tea.”
Homespun
Homespun is cloth that is made at home by spinning thread on a wheel and then weaving that thread into cloth on a loom.  In general, though, it meant things that were made at home in America.  
Protest 
To complain about or object to something.  While individuals may protest (you might protest in a restaurant if your food takes too long to come to you), here is means to do it publicly, so that others see or hear.  When you protest in this way, you are trying to alert others to the situation and influence them to join you.
Effigy
A dummy, often crudely made, that is supposed to represent a real person who is disliked.  One form of protest in 1770s Boston was to make effigies of unpopular Loyalists, like tax collectors, and hang them by the neck from the Liberty Tree, to the cheers and huzzahs of the assembled crowd.
Taxes
Taxes are monies that a government makes its citizens pay. Tax money is used for various things the government needs in order to operate.  Taxes pay the salaries of the people who work for the government, and they are used to pay for roads, government buildings like post offices, the military, and so on.  
Townshend Acts 
The Townshend Acts (or Duties) were laws passed by the British Parliament in June 1767. They placed a tax on common products imported to America such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea.  The taxes collected would be used to pay British governors and other officials that were usually paid by local town assemblies. 
Now practice the vocab words with the PowerPoint on Mr. Button's Website.  
Vocabulary Activity 
Activity: After reading and talking about the words or terms on the flash cards, read this letter Nat Wheeler sent to his parents back in Uxbridge after his second day in Boston. Use the cards and your memory to help you fill in the missing words and terms.
import 
homespun
taxes
export
protest
Loyalist
effigy
boycott
Townshend Acts
My dear Mother and Father,
You know that I have always been proud to be a British subject.  I have even thought that some day I might visit England and see the king.  But the events of the last few hours have awakened doubts I feel I must relate to you.
Mr. Edes made it clear to me that, in his opinion, to __________ British goods, even necessities like paper or tea, is in some way evil.  I overheard a conversation in which Mrs. Edes said she would rather take the time and effort to make and wear clothing of ____________, rough as it is, than to enrich an Englishman who would ___________ fine cloth to America while the King collected ____________ from Americans on the trade.  She feels there should be a ____________ of all British goods.
I found a newspaper article that identifies the American merchants who are ____________ and who continue to import British goods despite the taxes levied on them as a result of the hateful ____________.  I must keep my distance from these men when I go out to sell because Mr. Edes would never accept a ha’penny’s business from them.  I believe that for Mr. and Mrs. Edes, for a great many people in this city, the very word “Importer” has become a profanity!  
Until today, I felt it was not my place to take sides.  But now things have changed. Remember Mr. Lillie, about whom I wrote you yesterday? A crowd of people gathered near his store this morning to ____________ against his continued trade with England.  A neighbor of his, Mr. Richardson, also a Loyalist, was roughed up by the crowd. His wife was hit by an egg.  In response, he went to his roof, loaded his musket and snapped off a shot at the protestors.   A boy younger than I am, Christopher Seider, was cut down, and later today, he died of his wounds, may G-d have mercy on his soul!  
I have overheard talk of a further protest in which an ____________ of Mr. Richardson will be hung from a limb of the Liberty Tree.  And I have heard some plans about Poor Christopher’s funeral about which I will write further after it is done.
Your loving son,
Nat