Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Question 1

Independents

Answer 1

Freedom, especially from control by another Country or government.

Question 2

Patriot

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Loyalists

Answer 3

People in American colonies Who wanted The car needs to remain under the control of the king and Great Britain.

Question 4

Neutralists

Answer 4

American colonists Who did not support either side (loyalists or patriots) in the fight for independence from Great Britain.

Question 5

Traitor

Answer 5

A person, guilty of acting against his or her country.

Question 6

Sons of liberty

Answer 6

The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.