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Chp 9 - Soc Studies
American Revolution
Term | Definition |
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Town meeting | Earliest form of colonial self-government |
Minutemen | Colonial volunteer soldiers - ready at a moment's notice |
Quartering Act | Law that made colonists feed and shelter British soldiers. |
Committees of Correspondence | Way colonists kept each other informed |
Royal Govenors | England's way of controlling colonies |
Stamp Act | British taxes on paper products |
Boston Massacre | British killed 5 colonists |
Sons of Liberty | American Patriots favoring independence |
Sam Adams | Organized Committees of Correspondence |
Paul Revere | Warned colonists of British attack |
King George III | Refused to read the Olive Branch Petition from the colonists |
Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty, or give me death." |
Crispus Attucks | Killed at Boston Massacre |
Lexington and Concord | First battles of the American Revolution |
repeal | to cancel or take back |
boycott | to refuse to do business or have contact with a person, group or her country |
Patriot | a person who supported the colonists' fight for freedom |
Continental Army | an army consisting of troops from every colony |