Revolutionary
A group of people who make the laws in Great Britain
What is Parliament?
Colonists that fought against British rule.
What are Patriots?
What is a boycott?
The social studies unit you are currently studying.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The law stating colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763.
An army made up of ordinary people not paid to be soldiers.
What is militia?
When a law is thrown out or cancelled.
What is repealed?
Colonists who protested the actions of British leaders?
What is Sons of Liberty?
Using ships to bring goods into the colonies.
What is import?
The killing of 5 colonists in December, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre.
Colonists who supported the British government.
What are loyalists?
Members of a government, usually chosen by a vote, to act on behalf of others.
What are representatives or delegates?
The crime of betraying one's country, especially by trying to overthrow the government.
What is Treason?
British soldiers
What are redcoats?
Taxing the colonists paper goods, like marriage license's.
What is the Stamp Act.
A disagreement or argument.
What is a dispute?
A formal agreement between countries.
What is a treaty?
TRUE or FALSE: A loyalist would be a member of the Sons of Liberty.
What is false?
TRUE OR FALSE: A redcoat is part of a militia.
What is false?
The Boston Tea Party caused the these harsher acts by Parliament.
What are the Intolerable Acts.
Preventing goods from being imported or exported through a harbor.
What is a blockade.
The name of the colonists in the militia. ( ready quickly)
What are the Minute Men.
Who rode and warned the colonists the British were marching towards Lexington?
Who was Paul Revere.
How many crates of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor during the "Boston Tea Party"?
What is 342 crates.
This is considered the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington.