Vocabulary 12 and 13 Flashcards
Militia
A small army made up of ordinary citizens
Rebel
One person patriot
Repeal
To take back, or to cancel, a law
Liberty
Freedom
Boycott
To protest against or refuse to buy.
Loyalists
People in American colonies who wanted the colonies to remain under control of Great Britain.
Neutralist
Americans who didn’t support loyalists or patriots. In the middle.
Patriots
People in the American colonies who wanted to breakaway form Great Britian.
Traitor
A person guilty of acting against his or her country.
First Continental Congress
They got together and wrote a letter to asking George to get rid of the intolerable acts.
American Revolution
the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America
Battle of bunker hill
They realized patriots could fight and loyalists lost 8,000 soldiers.even though to British won.
Boston tea party
The patriots boycotted and dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Committees of correspondence
Key communication tool used in early years of revolutionary war.
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.
Intolerable acts
When they closed the harbor.
Sons of liberty
They were a secret group against the British.
Town meeting
A meeting where a town discussed the war.
Treason
The crime of disloyalty toward a ruler or government.
Stamp act
They put stamps on paper goods.
Minutemen
A small army that could be ready in a minutes time.
Assembly
A group of government officials who meet to make laws.
Delegate
A representative of their country.
Petition
a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
