Revolution Terms

Writs of assistance

• law that gave British officers the right to search colonists' homes for smuggled goods without a search warrant

• •created to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws

• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice

Committees of Correspondence

• Revolutionary War battle in Boston that showed the colonists could fight well against the British army

• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice

• created to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws

Intolerable Acts

• laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the abuses of authority by the British government

First Continental Congress

• law that gave British officers the right to search colonists' homes for smuggled goods without a search warrant

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the abuses of authority by the British government

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord

Minutemen

• colonist who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

• increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money

• American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice

Second Continental Congress

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the abuses of authority by the British government

• a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord

• agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States

Battle of Bunker Hill

• showed the colonists could fight well against the British army

• battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops

• a three-week-long siege by the Americans and French that trapped most of the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia

Loyalist

• British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the Revolutionary War

• increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money

• colonist who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

Redcoats

• British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the Revolutionary War

• colonist who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

• a three-week-long siege by the Americans and French that trapped most of the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia

Battle of Saratoga

• battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops

• a three-week-long siege by the Americans and French that trapped most of the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia

• showed the colonists could fight well against the British army