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Democratic Heritage
Term | Definition |
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independence | free from control of others |
liberty | the condition of being independent |
colony | a group of people who move to another land but who are still ruled by the country that they moved from |
colonists | people who live in a colony |
Red Coats/Lobster Backs | nicknames for the British soldiers |
King George III | the ruing leader of England who angered the colonists by taxing them unfairly |
Samuel Adams | leader of the Patriots and member of the Sons of Liberty who helped to organize protests against unfair taxes |
Parliament | group of people who make the laws for Great Britain and its colonies |
Boston Tea Party | angry colonists dressed as Indians and threw 10,000 pounds of tea into the water |
Boston Massacre | colonists angry over unfair taxes fight with British soldiers in the streets of Boston |
taxes | money collected by the government for goods and services |
Loyalists | colonists, but they supported King George and did not want to separate from England |
Patriots | colonists who wanted to separate from England and create their own independent country |
Paul Revere | a patriot and member of the Sons of Liberty who believed in people's rights. Famous for his midnight ride warning colonists that the British troops were marching |
British soldiers | men who were members of the British Army; Red Coats, Lobster Backs, and Regulators |
militia | soldiers called to fight in an emergency, not a professional army |
Sons of Liberty | secret group of colonists formed in Boston to protest against England and unfair taxes; taxation without representation |
boycott | refusing to use or buy a product that is being taxed |
Revolutionary War | war between the American colonists and England from 1775-1783 in which the colonists won their freedom and became an independent country |