War Flashcards
Milita
A small army made up of ordinary citizens
Rebel
Patriots
Repeal
To take back or to cancel the war
Liberty
Freedom
Boycott
Refuse
Loyalist
People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to remain under control of king and Great Britain
Patriot
People who wanted to break away from Great Britain
Neutralist
American colonists who did not support earthier side of the colonists
Traitor
A person guilty of acting against his or her own country
First continental congress
Write a letter to king George to stop intolerable act but he said “no”
American revolution
political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791.
Battle of bunker hill
The first battle that gave to patriots confidence
Boston tea party
Colonists in the harbor that poured all of the taxed tea in the water
Committees of correspondence
Communication system
Townshed acts
Act made up of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
Intolerable acts
Sires of laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston’s tea party the laws aimed to Massachusetts colonists to protest the tea act
Sons of liberty
A political group of people
Town meeting
A place where they disused war
Treason
The crime of disloyalty towards a leader or government
Stamps act
A act that the British put tax on paper goods.
Minute men
A group of people that are colonists/patriots
Assembly
A group of government officials who meet and make laws
Delegate
a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.
Petition
a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
