Rev war vocabulary

Question 1

Loyalist

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Rebel

Answer 2

Patriot

Question 3

Neutralists

Answer 3

American colonies who did not support either side (loyalists and patriots) in the fight for independence from Great Britain.

Question 4

Patriots

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Traitor

Answer 5

A person guilty of acting against his or her own country

Question 6

Liberty

Answer 6

Freedom

Question 7

Sons of liberty

Answer 7

In 1765 Adams helped to organize a group of patriots called the sons of liberty

Question 8

Militia

Answer 8

A small army made up of ordinary citizens

Question 9

Repeal

Answer 9

To take back or to cancel a law

Question 10

Boycott

Answer 10

To refuse to buy something because of the principle

Question 11

First continental congress

Answer 11

A meeting to make a letter to king George to stop intolerable acts.

Question 12

American revolution

Answer 12

when colonists fight for freedom

Question 13

Battle of bunker hill

Answer 13

The battle that proved that the patriots could fight the war

Question 14

Boston tea party

Answer 14

Yea was thrown of a ship which started the intolerable acts.

Question 15

Committees of correspondence

Answer 15

Key Communication tool used In The early years of the revolutionary war

Question 16

Townshed acts

Answer 16

Parliament passed the Townshend Acts which initiated taxes on glass lead paint paper and tea.

Question 17

Intolerable act

Answer 17

Series of laws passed by the British parliament In 1774 after the Boston tea party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defense in the tea party protest of the tea act.

Question 18

Town meeting

Answer 18

A place where they Discussed the war.

Question 19

Treason

Answer 19

The crime of disloyalty towards a leader or government

Question 20

Stamp act

Answer 20

An act that the British put taxes on paper goods.

Question 21

Minutemen

Answer 21

Another word for Patriots

Question 22

Assembly

Answer 22

A group of government officials who meet to make laws

Question 23

Delegate

Answer 23

Representative of their country

Question 24

Petition

Answer 24

a formal written request, typically one signed by many people