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US Box Quiz 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Loyalists | colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet by Thomas Paine that called for separation of the colonies from Britain |
| Olive Branch Petition | document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain |
| Declaration of Independence | a document written by Thomas Jefferson, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies’ independence from Britain Intolerable Acts |
| Martial Law | temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority - Occurred after the Boston Tea Party |
| Minutemen | patriot civilian soldiers who pledged to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice |
| Patriots | colonists who supported American independence from Britain |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists to protest the Tea Act |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and colonists over jobs, in which 5 of the colonists were killed |
| Intolerable Acts | series of laws enacted to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |