Revolution Vocabulary

Who was in charge of the 13 Colonies, but never lived there?

• George Washington

• King George III

• John Adams

• Thomas Gage

Payments to the government to help pay for things in the community are called

• Taxes

• Acts

• Boycotting

• Petitions

A group of people refusing to buy or do something is called

• Taxing

• Rebelling

• Boycotting

• Petitioning

If you were an American colonist who stayed loyal to King George III and were against the idea of war or independence you were called a . . .

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Redcoat

• Minuteman

This act taxed sugar, molasses, and rum in the colonies to pay for British war debts

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying anything with paper, making it more expensive

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

This was a group of colonists who formed a secret society to rebel against British Laws and created the saying "No Taxation without Representation!"

• Stamp Act Congress

• 1st Continental Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• Minutemen

This was the first attack by British soldiers on the colonists. Not many people died, but the event made lots of colonists side with the patriots

• Boston Tea Party

• Lexington and Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Boston Massacre

This act gave the East India Company more money from tea than the colonial merchants. It made the colonists boycott the tea.

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Tea Act

• Declaratory Act

This was a protest against British taxes where Boston colonists dressed up as Native Americans to dump tea into the ocean instead of buying it

• Boston Massacre

• 1st Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

• Lexington and Concord