Rev war vocable Flashcards
Militia
A small army made up of ordinary citizens
Rebel
Patriot
Repeal
To take bake, or to cancel a law
Liberty
Freedom
Boycott
To stop buying something
Loyalist
People in the colonies who wanted to remain under the control of king George the third
Neutralists
People the were in the colonies that did not support either side.
Patriot
People in the colonies who wanted independence from Britain
Traitor
A person guilty of acting against his/her own country
First continental congress
Wrote to king George to try to stop the war from starting.
Committees of correspondence
Committees of correspondence were longstanding institutions that became a key communications system during the early years of the American Revolution (1772-1776). Towns, counties, and colonies from Nova Scotia to Georgia had their own committees of correspondence.
American revolution
Is when a American revolts over something.
Battle of bunker hill
When the patriots build a bunker on a hill and showed the British that the can fight.
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea party was when the sons of liberty dressed up as native Americans and poured 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor.
Townshend acts
Townshend Acts. 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. Nonimportation. In response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports.
Intolerable acts
Is when the British closed down the Boston harbor and didn’t let anybody in.
Sons of liberty
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
Town meeting
A town meeting is when a town meets to discuss something.
Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.[1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one’s native country, attempting to overthrow its government
Stamp acts
The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III. It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England
Minutemen
Minutemen were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute’s notice, hence the name
Assembly
A group of government officials who meet to make laws.
Delegate
Delegation is the assignment of authority to another person to carry out specific activities. It is the process of distributing and entrusting work to another person, and therefore one of the core concepts of management leadership
Petition
The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The King’s rejection of the Petition, was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War
