Question |
Answer |
king GEORGE III |
British monarch |
Quartering Act |
a Law passed by parliament in 1765 that required the colonists to house and supply British soldiers |
revenue |
income the government collects to cover expenses |
sugar act |
a Law passed by parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar molasses and other products shipped to the colonies also called for harsh punishment of smugglers |
Stamp Act |
a 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid |
Patrick Henry |
a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, "Give me liberty or give me death"
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boycott |
a refusal to buy certain goods |
Sons of Liberty |
a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution |
Crispus Attucks |
sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry killed in the Boston Massacre |
Townshend Acts |
a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies |
writs of assistance |
a search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search fro smuggled goods |
Samuel Adams |
leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
Boston Massacre |
a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770 in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed |
John Adams |
lawyer who defended the redcoats who fired shots in the Boston Massacre
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committee of correspondence |
a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs
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Boston Tea Party |
the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
militia |
a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution |
Minuteman |
a member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning
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Intolerable Acts |
a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress |
a meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights |
Paul Revere |
Boston silversmith who helped spread news of British troop movements
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Lexington and Concord |
sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of the American Revolution
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Loyalist |
an American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution
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Patriot |
an American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution
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Ethan Allen |
leader of the band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys
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artillery |
a cannon or large gun |
Second Continental Congress |
a governing body whose delegates agreed in May 1775 to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence
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Continental Army |
a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 with George Washington as its commanding general |
Benedict Arnold |
leader of an expedition that attempted to defeat British |
Declaration of Independence |
the document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain |
Thomas Jefferson |
Member of a committee chosen to draft a Declaration of Independence
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