10/10 History Vocab Test Flashcards
process of collecting money from citizens in order to fund government expenses.
Taxation
Process from changing from one governmental structure to another.
Political Revolution
American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain.
Patriots
American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain.
Loyalists
A complaint
Grievance
To refuse to buy goods from a certain business or government.
Boycott
A military force of volunteers.
Militia
Soldiers who are paid to fight for a country they are not from.
Mercenaries
Freedom from rule by others.
Independence
a member of a group of men pledged to take up arms at a minute’s notice during and immediately before the American Revolution.
Minutemen
An official message sent from Congress to King George Ill where the colonists were trying to keep peace with England.
Olive Branch Petition
The first plan of government for the United States.
Articles of Confederation
Formal agreement between the United States and Great Britain in which Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.
Treaty of Paris
Known in Europe as the Seven Years War, this involved the Native Americans, English, French, and the colonists. They were all fighting Overland. They were trying to prove was theirs.
French and Indian War
Members of the Sons of Liberty boarded ships carrying British tea and dumped the tea in the harbor to protest the Tea Act.
Boston Tea Party
A fight that escalated between colonists and British soldiers leading to five colonists being killed and one of the main events that led to the American Revolution.
Boston Massacre
Document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 that told KingGeorge Ill that the colonists no longer wanted to be part of England.
Declaration of Independence
Tax on imports.
Tariff
An order by King George Ill of England that blocked colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Nation who is a military partner.
Ally
