Question | Answer |
revolution | an overthrow of an established goverment |
unalienable | incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another |
First Continental Congress | The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution |
Second Continental Congress | the Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun |
Continental Army | The army raised by the Continental Congress of 1775, with George Washington as commander |
Endowed | Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution) |
Quartering | the act of a person or thing that quarters. |
Insurrections | an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government. |
Arbitrary | subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion |
Hessians | of or pertaining to the state of Hesse or its inhabitants. |
Minutemen | a member of a group of American militiamen just before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves in readiness for instant military service. |