Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards
Blockade
Action to stop transportation of goods or people in or out of an area
Common sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas pain that claimed the colonists had a right to be an independent nation
Boycott
A refusal to buy or use goods and services
Committee of correspondence
Groups of letters writers who spread news about British actions throughout the colonist
Continental congress
Representatives from colonies met to discuss what it to be done about the British, particularly the intolerable act
Daughters of liberty
A group of women formed in 1767 to support the boycott of British goods
Declaration of Independence
Document written by Thomas Jefferson outlined and reasons for the colonist to break the tie with England
Desert
To leave military duty without intending to return
Effigy
A crude dummy or image representing a hated person or group
Firebrand
A person who stirs up trouble or revolt
Guerrilla warfare
Type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy
Loyalist
American colonist who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
Mercenary
If soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army
Militia
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
Minutemen
A group of volunteers soldiers that fought for the patriot cause during the American Revolution
Natural rights
The idea that all humans are born with the rides which include the rights of life liberty and property
Neutral
Not favoring either sides it a dispute
No Texas without representation
Reflecting the colonists belief that they should not be taxed because they have no direct representative in the Parliament
Nonimportation agreement
A pledge to boycott English goods The first was introduced by the colonist in 1764
Patriot
American colonist who was determined to fight the British until American independence was one
Petition
A formal request for government action
Preamble
An introduction to his speech or a piece of writing
Privateer
In armed private ship
Propaganda
Ideas spread to influence public opinion
Ratify
To approve
Repeal
To cancel an act or law
Resolution
In formal expression of opinion
Revenue
Government income
Sons of liberty
A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution
Writs of assistance
Allowed England to search colonists ships and other private property without an individual warrant
