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Am Revolution
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parliament | Britains law-making assembly |
| Sons of Liberty | group of patriots that led protest against the Stamp Act and other bristling law |
| Repeal | to cancel |
| boycott | organized refusal to buy goods |
| Continental Congress | representatives from 12 colonies meet to discuss the fighting with the British |
| Petition | A request to do something, mst commonly addressed to a government |
| Loyalist | Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution |
| Patriot | American Colonists that opposed British rule |
| Stamp Act | Law passed by parliment that taxed printed materials in the colonies |
| Boston Tea Party | Protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1775 |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by British Parliment to punish the people of Boston following theBoston Tea Party |
| Samuel Adams | Patriot who was the create of the Sons of Liberty |
| King George 3rd | King of Britian during the time of the American Revolution |
| Patrick Henry | Pariot to speak out against the Stamp Act |
| Cripus Attucks | African American Patriot and Farmer Slave who was killed b the Boston Massacre in 1778 |
| John Adams | Patriot leader during the American Revolution and second President of the USA |