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CCS History Ch 4V
Chapter 4 1st set of vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Battle of Bunker Hill | An American Revolutionary war battle near Boston; a victory for the British ; hope of the Patriots because large number of British casualities |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | the first conficts of the American Revolutionary War between American coloniest and the British in Massachusetts on 4/19/1775 |
| besiege | the act of completely surrounding an area to keep any person or supplies from going in and out |
| Boston Massacre | an incident on March 5, 1770 between the British soldiers and American colonists where five citizens wer killed |
| Boston Tea Party | a protest by the Boston colonist again the British tea laws |
| boycott | the act of refusing to use, buy, or deal with a store, company, or organizationin order to express a protest |
| coerce | the act of forcing someone to do something unwillingly |
| commander in chief | the highest commander of a nation's armed forces |
| Continental Congress | the representatives from each of the thirteen colonies who met in Philidelphia to decide how to deal with the British parliament |
| continental dollars | early American money that the Continental Congress issued during the Revolutionary War |
| Continentals | soldiers who fought with the Continental army during the American Revolutionary War |
| customs agent | a person who oversees the taxes on imports and exportes of goods |
| Declaration of Indenpendence | a document written by Thomas Jefferson and other delegates of the Second Continental Congress that declared the colonies to be independent from England |
| envoy | a representative of one country to another |
| Intolerable Acts | the British laws forced on the colonists as punishment for throwing a tea shipment into the harbor |
| Iroquois Confederacy | an alliance consisting of six Indian tribes in the northeastern region of North America |
| July 4, 1776 | the date the Declaration of Indenpendence was adopted |