American Revolution Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
allies | friends in war |
boycott | refuse to buy or use something |
French and Indian War | war between the British and French and their Native American allies |
Proclamation of 1763 | law that colonists could not settle west of the Applachian Mountains |
Stamp Act | placed taxes on printed materials |
Townshend Acts | laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods |
Parliament | Great Britain's law-making body |
Battle of Bunker Hill | first major battle in the Revolutionary War |
Boston Massacre | 1770-British soldiers killed 5 colonists |
Boston Tea Party | colonists dumped tea in the Boston Harbor |
Committee of Correspondence | groups of colonists who spread news |
First Continental Congress | meeting of representatives from every colony, but Georgia |
Declaration of Independence | declaring independence from Great Britain |
Intolerable Acts | laws passed to punish the colonists |
loyalist | American colonists who are loyal to King George III |
militia | group of ordinary people who trained for battle |
minutemen | colonists who would be ready to fight in a minutes notice |
patriot | colonists who supported independence |
Paul Revere | rode from Boston to Lexington to warn the patriots |
repeal | to cancel a law |
Second Continental Congress | event where the Declaration was written |
Stamp Act | placed taxes on printed materials |
Tea Act | the colonists could only buy tea from the East India Company |
traitor | people who were against their own country |
Treaty of Paris | ended the American Revolution |
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