American Revolution: Vocabulary Review I

A territory controlled by a larger country far away

• district

• colony

• region

• congress

Political body assembled to represent colonies; voted to ban all trade with Britain until the INTOLERABLE ACTS were repealed; called on colonies to create a militia; not yet ready to separate from Great Britain

• Continental Army

• Continental Parliament

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

This was formed by the Second Continental Congress; created a unified force to fight the revolution.

• US Army

• Minutemen

• Continental Congress

• Continental Army

Written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the American colonies independent from Great Britain; July 1776

• US Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

What were Loyalists?

• People who supported war with England

• People who supported war with France

• People who supported remaining with Britain

• People who supported the French Revolution

a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies -

• Continental Army

• Minuteman

• Militia

• Navy

The law-making body (legislature) in the British government -

• Congress

• Senate

• House of Representatives

• Parliament

Colonists that supported fighting the British until independence was won -

• loyalists

• rebels

• patriots

• redcoats

A group of rebels who opposed British Rule led by Samuel Adams -

• Sons of Anarchy

• Sons of Liberty

• Redcoats

• Loyalists

PAY ATTENTION - Treaty that ended the French & Indian War -

• Treaty of Paris of 1763

• Treaty of Paris of 1783

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo