Vocabulary
Colonists Protest British Rule
Revolution Begins
Declaration of Independence
Vocab. 2.0
100
A colonist who turned against England.
Who is a traitor?
100
He was killed during the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
Where the first battle of the American Revolution took place.
What is Lexington?
100
A document explaining to the world why the colonies had to separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
To not buy something.
What is boycott?
200
A person who wanted to stay a British citizen.
Who is a loyalist?
200
One of the first British laws placing taxes on the colonies. It made the colonist angry.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
He rode to Concord to warn the people that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A person who wanted to break from England.
Who is a Patriot?
300
Something that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
300
The reaction of the British Parliament to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
He led a group called the Green Mountain Boys.
Who is Ethan Allen?
300
A petition sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
300
To cancel or take back.
What is repeal?
400
A military force made up of volunteers.
What is a militia?
400
Laws that made colonists pay taxes on everyday items imported from Britain.
What is the Townshend Acts?
400
He wanted to take control of weapons and gun powder the colonial militia had stored.
Who is Thomas Gage?
400
Two accomplishments of the Second Continental Congress.
What is 1. formed the Continental army, 2. started the postal service, 3. asked foreign countries for support, 4. sent Olive Branch petition?
400
volunteer soldiers ready to defend the colonies at a minute's notice.
Who are minutemen?
500
An army consisting of troops from every colony.
What is a Continental army?
500
He was a member of the House of Burgesses and agreed only colonists could tax colonists.
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
The place the colonial militia stored their weapons and gun powder.
What is Concord?
500
Two complaints of the colonists against the king.
What is 1. forbid the colonial assemblies to meet, 2. kept soldiers in the colonies without the colonists' consent, 3. deprived colonists the right of trial by jury, 4. taxed colonists without consent?
500
A drawing that expresses a cartoonist's opinion.
What is a political cartoon?
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