Answer | Question |
revenue | incoming money from taxes |
boycott | a refusal to buy items in order to show disapproval |
rebellion | open defiance of authority |
Patriot | an American colonist who favored independence |
writs of assistance | these would allow officials to enter any location and search it |
repeal | to cancel an act or law |
minutemen | they were ready to fight at a minute's notice |
Loyalist | Those who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war of independence |
petition | used to make a formal request |
effigy | a mocking figure representing an unpopular person |
propaganda | posters and writings designed to influence opinions |
committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas through the colonies |
Sugar Act | this allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses |
Declaratory Act | this act stated that Parliament had the right to tax the colonists |
French and Indian War | Great Britain developed huge debt fighting this war |
Townshend Acts | boycotts following the Boston Massacre helped repeal these Acts |
Boston Massacre | Paul Revere's engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to anti-British feelings among the colonists? |
Tea Act | This act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants. |
Boston Tea Party | This was a dramatic act of defiance against the Tea Act |
Intolerable Acts | the colonial name for the laws that banned town meetings in New England |
Thomas Gage | He had orders to take away the weapons from the colonial militia |
William Dawes | He, along with Paul Revere, warned Samuel Adams that the British were coming |
Ethan Allen | He led the Green Mountain Boys who captured the British held Fort Ticonderoga |
Battle of Bunker Hill | After winning which battle did the British learn that defeating the Americans would not be easy |
Continental Congress | voted to boycott British trade |
Concord | storage place for arms |
Benedict Arnold | sold military information to the British |
Captain John Parker | leader of minutemen |
The Declaration of Independence | This document explained why the colonies chose to form a new nation |
George Washington | the first commander of the Continental Army |
Olive Branch petition | this petition asked the king to protect the colonists' rights |
John Hancock | The first man to sign the Declaration of Independence |
smuggled | some colonists did this to avoid paying taxes |
Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense, calling for a break from British rule |
Samuel Adams | organized the Sons of Liberty |
John Hancock | president of the Second Continental Congress |
Crispus Attucks | African American dockworker who was a victim of the Boston Massacre |
Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration of Independence |
John Locke | philosopher who expressed the idea that all people are born with the rights to life, liberty and property |
preamble | introduction to a formal document that often tells why it was written |