Vocab unit 11 Flashcards
Independence
Freedom especially by another country or government.
Patriots
People in America colonies who wanted the colonies to break away from Britain.
Loyalist
People who American colonies Who wanted the colonies to remain under the control of the king and Great Britain.
Neutralists
American colonist who did not support either side loyalist or patriot in the fight for independence from Great Britain.
Traitors
A person guilty of acting against his or her own country
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