Rev war vocable

Question 1

Militia

Answer 1

A small army made up of ordinary citizens

Question 2

Rebel

Answer 2

Patriot

Question 3

Repeal

Answer 3

To take bake, or to cancel a law

Question 4

Liberty

Answer 4

Freedom

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

To stop buying something

Question 6

Loyalist

Answer 6

People in the colonies who wanted to remain under the control of king George the third

Question 7

Neutralists

Answer 7

People the were in the colonies that did not support either side.

Question 8

Patriot

Answer 8

People in the colonies who wanted independence from Britain

Question 9

Traitor

Answer 9

A person guilty of acting against his/her own country

Question 10

First continental congress

Answer 10

Wrote to king George to try to stop the war from starting.

Question 11

Committees of correspondence

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

American revolution

Answer 12

Is when a American revolts over something.

Question 13

Battle of bunker hill

Answer 13

When the patriots build a bunker on a hill and showed the British that the can fight.

Question 14

Boston tea party

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Townshend acts

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Intolerable acts

Answer 16

Is when the British closed down the Boston harbor and didn’t let anybody in.

Question 17

Sons of liberty

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Town meeting

Answer 18

A town meeting is when a town meets to discuss something.

Question 19

Treason

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Stamp acts

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Minutemen

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Assembly

Answer 22

A group of government officials who meet to make laws.

Question 23

Delegate

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Petition

Answer 24

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