American Revolution Vocabulary

colonists

• A settler in or inhabitant of a colony.

• Free from outside control;not depending on another’s authority.

• An agreement stop fighting a war.

Sugar Act

• exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

• a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar

• A set of laws for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it governed.

Stamp Act

• a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies .

• the new tax was imposed on all american colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they use.

• the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England.

representatives

• not influenced by the thought or action of others

• as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom

• The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

American Revolution

• the war between Great Britain and its American colonies

• A set of laws for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it governed.

• A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others, in particular.

independent

• The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

• not influenced by the thought or action of others

• An agreement stop fighting a war.

Declaration of Independence

• not influenced by the thought or action of others

• declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England.

• Free from outside control;not depending on another’s authority.

peace treaty

• an agreement between two or more hostile parties,

• not influenced by the thought or action of others

• the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

Constitution

• the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

• An agreement to come peace and conflict.

• a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764

George Washington

• Leader of Great Britain

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

• leader of the American army