Revolutionary War Vocabulary

Sons of Liberty

• Colonist who fought against British rule.

• Secret group of colonist founded to protest Stamp Act.

• Colonist who could be ready in a minute to fight the British.

• Nickname for British soldiers because of their Redcoats.

Civilians soldiers who are trained to fight but not part of regular army.

• Militia

• Redcoats

• Sons of Liberty

• Minutemen

Colonist who fought against the British.

• Loyalist

• Parliament

• Patriots

• Redcoats

The Killing of five men by British Soldiers on March 5,1770.

• Parliment

• Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

Rode horse back to warn the colonist the British were coming

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Paul Revere

• George III

Parliment

• American Government;President, Congress and Senate

• British Government;King,House of Commons and Lords, and Prime Minister.

• Alabama Government: Governor, House of Representative,Senators.

• Student Government: President, Class Representatives.

Tax that the British government placed on newspapers, and books and documents sold in the colonies.

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Act

• Stamp Act

Colonist who remained loyal to the King during the American Revolution

• Patriots

• Loyalist

• Militia

• Continental Congress

Boston citizens dressed as Indians raided three ships and threw tea into the harbor as protest against taxes on tea.

• Boston Tea Party

• Continental Congress

• Boston Massacre

• Parliament

Legislative assembly composed of delegates from rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution.

• Parliment

• Government

• Continental Congress

• Minutemen