Unit 2: American Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Freedom Parade

• Boston Marathon

• Boston Harbor

• Boston Harbor

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

• Quartering Acts

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

to be ready for service at a minute's notice meant you were...

• hourmen

• Redcoat

• minusmen

• minutemen

a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Patrolman

• Supporter

American colonists who stayed loyal to the Crown

• Kingsmen

• Loyal men

• Loyalist

• Patriot

a military blockade of a city

• encampment

• encirclement

• Blockade

• Siege

military clothing used widely by most regiments of the British Army from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

• Redcoat

• minutemen

• Patriot

• Loyalist

cannot be taken away or denied. (ex. Life, Liberty )

• repeal

• common sense

• Unalienable rights

• bill of rights

fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.

• Battle of Boston

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Lexington and Concord

• Gettysburg