Vocabulary
What was the document called that thomas jefferson declaring the freedom of 13 colonies
The Declaration Of Independence
what was a person called that primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.
Mercenary
what was a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
sugar act
what was the war called between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies in North America which declared independence in July 1776 as the United States of America.
1775-1783 war of independence
what was a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
Militia
what is a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government,
loyalist
what was the raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.
Boston tea party
what is a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
Quartering act
what was the meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War
1775 second continental congress
Articles Of Confederation
what is a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
Patriots
what was the riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
Boston Massacre
what was the act designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable acts
what was the meeting that by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.
1774 first continental congress
what is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-lasting 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
Salutary neglect
what was the group called that was was a secret revolutionary organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
Sons of liberty
what is a person who betrays a friend, country, principle,
Traitor
what was the act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents).
stamp act
what was the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
declaratory act
what was the treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War. b. a treaty of 1783 between the US, Britain, France, and Spain, ending the War of American Independence.
Treaty Of Paris
what was the group called as the formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act,
Daughter of liberty
what was the war fought from 1775-1783 and won by the 13 American colonies to achieve independence from Great Britain.
American Revolution
what was the act that benefited the East India Company by giving them the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies, creating a monopoly which the colonists perceived as another means of “taxation without representation”.
tea act
what was several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
Navagation acts
what is a perrson called that is a member of a class of American militiamen who volunteered to be ready for service at a minute's notice.
Minutemen