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The road to Revolution
Term | Definition |
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king George III | The British monarch wanted to enforce the Proclamation and to also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies. |
Quartering Act | A cost saving Measure. |
revenue | Income. |
Sugar act | Tax on sugar molasses and other products shipped to the colonies. |
Stamp Act | All legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp. |
Patrick Henery | A member of Virginia's house of burgesses. |
boycott | A refusal to buy. |
Sons of Liberty | Lawyers, Merchants, and Craftspeople. |
Townshend act | Parliament passed his plan. |
writs of assistance | search warrants |
Samuel Adams | a leader of the Boston sons of liberty |
Boston Massacre | this is what the sons of liberty called the shooting |
John Adams | a lawyer and cousin of Samuel adams |
committees of correspondence | Samuel Adams called a drive this |
Boston tea party | liberty organized this they called it the Boston tea party |
The militia | was a force of armed civilians |
Minutemen | trained to ready to act at a minutes warning |
Intolerable Acts | also called Coercive Acts but worse |
First continental congress | Delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the intolerable Acts were repealed. |
Paul Revere | Boston silver smith |
Lexington and concord | were the first battles of the revolutionary war |
loyalists | supported british |
patriots | sided with rebels |
Ethan Allen | led band of backwoodsmen |
artillery | cannon large guns |
Second continetial congress | they began meeting in phelidelphia |
contiental army | George Washington and Patrick henry |
Benedict Arnold | an officer who had played a role in the victory at forge Ticonderoga |
Declaration of Independence | Is the statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting at the pennsylvania state house. |
Thomas Jefferson | was also included in the Declaration of Independence. |