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Revolutionary War
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sons of liberty | secret group of colonists founded to protest Stamp Act |
| Militias | civilian soldiers who are trained to fight but not a part of the regular army |
| patriots | colonists who fought against British rule |
| parliament | the government of Great Britain, includes the king, the house of commons, the house of lords and the prime minister |
| loyalists | Colonists who remained loyal to the king during the American Revolution |
| redcoats | nickname for |
| continental congress | the legislative assembly composed of delegates |
| minutemen | colonists who could be ready in a minute of fight the British |
| Boston tea party | Boston citizens disguised as Indians raided three British ships and dumped chest of tea into the harbor as a protest against taxes on tea |
| stamp act | tax that the British government placed on newspapers, books and documents sold in the colonies |
| Boston Massacre | The killing five men by British soldiers on March 5, 1770 |
| Paul Revere | rode on a horseback from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn that the redcoats were coming in |
| treaty of Paris | provisional peace treaty signed after lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown |