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Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards

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Independence

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Freedom, especially from control by another country or government

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Patriots

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People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to break away from Great Britain. Such people favored independence for the colonies

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Loyalists

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People in the Americas colonies who wanted the colonies to remain under control of the king and Great Britain. Loyalists were loyal to the king and opposed independence

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Neutralists

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American colonists who did not support either side (Loyalist or Patriot) in the fight for independence from Great Britain

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Traitors

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A person guilty of acting against his or her own country

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Sons Of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

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