Revolution Vocabulary. Flashcards
Albany Plan of Union.
Plan written by Benjamin Franklin that called for the colonies to unite under a common governing body.
Casualties.
People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war.
Proclamation of 1763.
banning colonial settlements west of the Appalachian mountains.
Backcountry.
Frontier region in Virginia and the Carolina between coastal settlements and the Appalachian mountains.
Daughters of liberty.
Women’s group that used boycotts and other measures to support the colonies’ resistance to the the British.
Sugar Act.
Law passed by the British parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.
Boston Tea Party.
Protest against the Tea act in which a group of colonists boarded British Tea ships and dumped some 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Intolerable Acts.
A set of laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Committees of correspondence.
Committees created in Massachusetts in the 1760’s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British laws.
Boycott
To refuse to but certain goods; method often used in Protestant movements.
Pioneers.
People who first settle an area.
Propaganda.
Stories as images designed to support a particular point of view.
Stamp act.
Law passed by parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items.
Tea Act.
Law passed by parliament allowing the British east India company to sell it’s low-cost tea directly to the colonies.
Militia
An army made up of civilians serving temporary as soldiers.
