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Chapter 5 Revolution

Revolutionary War, 8th Grade Vocab

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Apprentice To learn a particular skill or craft from a master craftsman.
Puritans A group of people who had broken away from the Church of England because of religious differences.
Proprietary Colony A colony directed by those to whom a charter was given.
Royal Colony A colony directly governed by the king.
Parish In colonial Georgia, a church and British government district.
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.
Palisades Fences made of sharpened stakes.
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.
Independence Political or economic freedom.
Tories Those colonies who were loyal to the British crown; also called Loyalists, British Royalists, "King's Friends".
Patriots Those colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain; also called Whigs, Liberty Boys, Colonials, Sons and Daughters of Liberty.
Boycott A protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until specific conditions are met.
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.
Sugar Act Legislation passed by Parliament in 1764 that imposed a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the West Indes.
Stamp Act Legislation passed by Parliament in 1765 that imposed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and licenses.
Liberty Boys A group of Georgian's who opposed the Stamp Act; part of the larger Sons of Liberty.
Townshend Acts A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that placed import taxes on tea, paper, glass, and coloring for paints.
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.
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.
Declaration of Independence Document issued by the Second Continental Congress by which the delegates stated their intention to be free of British rule.
Ratify To approve or make valid.
Articles of Confederation The first constitution of the United States; ratified in 1781, it created a weak federal government and was eventually replaced.
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.
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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