Lesson 1
The loss of value of money.
Inflation
Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted they were ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Minutemen
A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes.
Guerrilla Warfare
A form of government in which power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote.
Republic
What started the Boston Massacre?
A snowball fight.
A search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling.
Writ of Assistance
Americans who supported the British side in the conflict.
Loyalists (or Tories)
The final set of peace agreements were called:
Treaty of Paris
This was the first state funded university in the United States.
University of North Carolina
What was the name of the peace treaty the colonists tried to send to King George III, but he refused to read?
The Olive Branch Petition
A tax on imports and exports.
Customs Duty
Colonists who believed that the British had become tyrants.
Patriots (or Whigs)
A feeling of confidence or enthusiasm.
Morale
The act or process of freeing enslaved persons.
Emancipation
Two major advancements women made after the war were __________.
They could more easily get a divorce and they gained more access to education.
The north-south line along the Appalachian Mountains creating a western border that colonists could not settle beyond.
The Proclamation of 1763
Committee organized in each colony to communicate with and unify the colonies.
Committee of Correspondence
This was the western border of the new United States at the end of the Revolutionary War.
The Mississippi River
The new voting laws expanded to include these people.
White men who paid taxes but did not own property.
John Adams argued that government needed ____________ to prevent any group in society from becoming strong enough to take away the rights of the minority.
Checks and Balances
A pledge by merchants not to buy imported goods from a particular source.
Nonimportation Agreement
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress issued this document - written by Thomas Jefferson. This created the United States of America.
Declaration of Independence
This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Yorktown
The voluntary freeing of enslaved persons.
These three acts were placed upon the colonists by Britain and came to be known as the Coercive Acts.
Boston Port Act; Massachusetts Government Act; Administration of Justice Act