click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
American Revolution
Vocabulary for the AR Unit of Study
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Parliament | Britain's law-making assembly. |
Stamp Act | Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 colonies. |
petition | a written request made to an official person or organization |
Son's of Liberty | Groups of Patriots who worked to opposed British rule before the American Revolution. |
tariff | tax on imported goods |
boycott | organized refusal to buy goods |
Committee of Correspondence | groups of colonists formed in the 1770's to spread news quickly about the protests against the British |
Tea Act | law passed by Parliament in the early 1770's stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 colonies |
Boston Tea Party | protest against British Parliament to punish people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party |
Intolerable Acts | laws passed by British Parliament to punish people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party |
Patriots | American Colonists who opposed British rule |
Loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution |
First Continental Congress | meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia held in Pennsylvania in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts |
militia | volunteer army |