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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 are not part of the regular army. |
| Patriots | Colonists who fought against British rule. |
| Parliament | The government of great Britian, 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 the British soldiers.(because of red coats they all wore. |
| Continental Congress | the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colinies who met during and after the American Revolution. |
| Minutemen | Colonists who could be ready in a minute to fight the British men. |
| Boston tea party | Boston citizens dressed as Indians raided three british ships and dumped chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against taxes on tea. |
| Stamp Act | Tax that the British government placed on newspaper, books and ,documents sold in the colonies. |
| Boston Massacre | The killing of five men by british soldiers on March 5th, 1770. |
| Paul Revere | rode on horseback from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn that the redcoats were coming. |
| Treaty of Paris | Provisional peace treaty signed after Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. |