American History Vocab

an official statement or announcement made by a person in power or by a government

• Proclamation

• Treaty

• Consent

• Intolerable

too bad, harsh,or severe to be accepted or tolerated

• Independence

• Intolerable

• Violated

• Represented

Individual rights protected by law from unjust governmental or other interference

• free enterprise

• Civic Virtue

• Civil Disobedience

• Civil Liberties

a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

• Intolerable Acts

• Common Sense

• Sons of Liberty

• Imposed

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

• Violated

• Independence

• Grievance

• Boycott

Doing what is best for the common good or community despite feelings or mood

• Civil Disobedience

• Civil Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Civic Virtue

When a nation or nations recognize the status of another's claim to be a nation as a legitimate claim

• Treaty

• Foreign Recoginition

• Ally

• Proclamation

Wrote propaganda and plays that inspired many to join the Revolution

• Abigail Adams

• John Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Thomas Jefferson

African American slave who served as a spy for the Continental Army

• James Armistead

• John Paul Jones

• Crispus Attucks

• Whenstel Chester

Drafted the Declaration of Independence

• Ben Franklin

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington