The Revolutionary War

a person chosen to represent a larger group

• Parliament

• tax

• delegate

• boycott

to refuse to buy

• boycott

• Parliament

• Patriot

• tax

an American colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain

• Parliament

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• militia

an American colonist who supported independence from Great Britain

• delegate

• Loyalist

• boycott

• Patriot

the law-making part of the government of Great Britain

• Stamp Act

• Loyalist

• Parliament

• Patriot

a law that stated that colonists had to use special stamped paper for printed material and legal documents

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Stamp Act

• militia

a volunteer army

• tax

• militia

• bycott

• delegate

money paid to the government

• tax

• boycott

• delegate

• militia

What did Loyalists want?

• independence from Great Britain

• a boycott of British goods

• a strong colonial militia

• strong ties with Great Britain

Where did the American Revolution begin?

• Kaskaskia

• Philadelphia

• Lexington and Concord

• Yorktown