Revolutionary War, 8th Grade Vocab
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| Apprentice | To learn a particular skill or craft from a master craftsman.
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| Puritans | A group of people who had broken away from the Church of England because of religious differences.
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| Proprietary Colony | A colony directed by those to whom a charter was given.
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| Royal Colony | A colony directly governed by the king.
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| Parish | In colonial Georgia, a church and British government district.
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| French and Indian War | The war that took place in North America from 1754 to 1763 in which the French and their Indian allies fought the British for control of the Ohio River Valley.
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| Palisades | Fences made of sharpened stakes.
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| Cracker | A group of what plantation owners called "undesirable people" who moved from Virginia and the Carolinas to the middle and western parts of the colony.
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| Independence | Political or economic freedom.
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| Tories | Those colonies who were loyal to the British crown; also called Loyalists, British Royalists, "King's Friends".
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| Patriots | Those colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain; also called Whigs, Liberty Boys, Colonials, Sons and Daughters of Liberty.
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| Boycott | A protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until specific conditions are met.
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| Proclomation of 1763 | An order issued by King George III that moved Georgia's southern boundary to the St. Marys River; it also forbade the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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| Sugar Act | Legislation passed by Parliament in 1764 that imposed a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the West Indes.
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| Stamp Act | Legislation passed by Parliament in 1765 that imposed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and licenses.
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| Liberty Boys | A group of Georgian's who opposed the Stamp Act; part of the larger Sons of Liberty.
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| Townshend Acts | A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that placed import taxes on tea, paper, glass, and coloring for paints.
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| Quartering Act | Legislation passed by the British Parliament that required the colonists to house and feed British soldiers at their own expense; part of the Intolerable Acts.
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| Second Continental Congress | A meeting of the colonists in 1775 to discuss the increasing tensions between the British Crown and the Colonists; eventually the deligates issued by the Declaration of Independence.
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| Declaration of Independence | Document issued by the Second Continental Congress by which the delegates stated their intention to be free of British rule.
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| Ratify | To approve or make valid.
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| Articles of Confederation | The first constitution of the United States; ratified in 1781, it created a weak federal government and was eventually replaced.
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| Siege | A military action that occurs when forces try to capture a fortified fort of town by surrounding it and preventing any supplies from reaching it.
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| Treaty of Paris (1783) | The treaty signed in 1783 by Great Britain, France, and the United States that ended the American Revolution.
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