Vocab
An American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution.
Loyalist
An American colonist who supported the right of the American colonies to govern themselves.
Patriot
The study of the processes that shape Earth’s rocks and landforms.
Geology
The british laws passed to punish the people of Boston after the Boston Tea Party; also called the Coercive Acts.
Intolerable Acts
A tax on imports.
Duty
The British laws stating that only the East India Company was allowed to sell tea to the American colonies.
Tea Act
The 1779 incident in which the British soldiers fired on locals who had been taunting them.
Boston Massacre
One of several British laws that required American colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers stationed in North America.
Quartering Act
Large guns that can fire over a long distance.
Artillery
The 1773 incident in which the Sons of liberty boarded British ships and dumped their cargo in protest of British taxes on the colonists.
Boston Tea Party
The British law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers.
Stamp Act
To cancel or nullify, especially a law.
Repeal
Military force made up of local citizens to help protect their own town, land or nation.
Militia
The British law that lowered the duty on molasses to cut out smuggling, so that the British would get the revenue.
Sugar Act
Income; the money that is received.
Revenue
A form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services.
Boycott
The document declaring US independence from Great Britain, adopted July 4, 1776.
Declaration of Independence
An American colonial militia member who was ready to join in combat at a moment's notice.
Minutemen
A legal document giving authorities the right to enter and search a home or business.
Writ of Assistance
A right that cannot be taken away.
Unalienable Right
A set of British laws that placed duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint; required colonists to purchase them from Britain.
Townshend Acts
The groups of merchants, shopkeepers, and craftsmen who successfully opposed the stamp act by establishing networks to boycott British goods.
Sons of Liberty
The British law that regulated paper money in the American colonies.
Currency Act
A group of leaders of the American colonies who met to address the problem of British tyranny, declared independence in 1776, and led the United States through the American Revolution.
Second Continental Congress
The 1774 meeting of representatives from all American colonies to decide on a response to the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress