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Question 1

Militia

Answer 1

Small army made up of ordinary citizens.

Question 2

Repeal

Answer 2

To take back or cancel a law.

Question 3

Rebel

Answer 3

To go against someone or something.

Question 4

Liberty

Answer 4

Freedom of citizens.

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

Refuse to do something

Question 7

American revolution

Answer 7

The war between the American colonies and Great Britain from 1775 until 1783.

Question 8

Committee of correspondence

Answer 8

The committees of correspondence functioned mainly as a means of spreading news and information about the Patriot cause and mobilizing opposition to British policies in cities, towns and rural communities throughout the colonies

Question 9

Townshend act

Answer 9

To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

Question 10

Intolerable acts

Answer 10

, A series of unfair acts passed by the British Parliament

Question 11

Sons of liberty

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Town meeting

Answer 12

a form of local government in which most or all of the members of a community are eligible to legislate policy and budgets for local citizens

Question 13

Treason

Answer 13

The crime of disloyalty toward a ruler or government

Question 14

Assembly

Answer 14

A group of government officials who met to make laws.

Question 15

Delegate

Answer 15

a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

Question 16

Petition

Answer 16

a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.