Vocabulary chapter 10

The colonies were like a child who sometimes refused to obey the parent this kind of comparison is called a metaphor.

Money that is owed to someone else. People (and organizations, such as governments) have debts when they have borrowed money and promised to pay back.

Forcing people to pay taxes when they had no say in making the law that created tax. American colonists were angry about paying taxes that were passed by the British Parliament, where they had no representatives (people who could vote on tax).

To complain publicly about something that people believe is wrong or unfair.

The lawmaking part of the British government, similar to the Congress in the United States. The American colonists did not have the right to elect representatives to the Parliament.

To take back, or to cancel, a law.

Laws created or passed by a government. For example, the Stamp Act was a law that was passed by the British Parliament.