American Revolution Vocabulary

Refusing to buy goods from a certain country.

• Militia

• Boycott

• Repeal

• Blockade

To cancel an act or law

• Anull

• Repeal

• Reverse

• Get rid of

A military force made up of ordinary citizens.

• Army

• Patriots

• Federal Reserve

• Militia

Using ships to prevent goods from leaving a harbor.

• Blockade

• Militia

• Barricade

• Obstruction

American colonists who were determined to gain independence from the British.

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Nationalist

• Volunteer

American colonists who stayed loyal to Great Britain

• Red Coats

• Traitors

• Loyalists

• Patriots

Rights that cannot or should not be taken away by a government because they are given by God; examples: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

• Unalienable Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Independence Rights

• Bill of Rights

Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army

• Benjamin Franklin

• Samuel Adams

• King George III

• George Washington

Boston Patriot who opposed British taxation. He established the committee of correspondence. Leader of the Sons of Liberty.

• George Washington

• Thomas Pain

• John Adams

• Samuel Adams

Main author of the Declaration of Independence

• John Locke

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison