American Revolution Vocabulary

a forceful overthrow of a government by the people

• Debate

• Revolution

• Tariff

• Absolutism

Prohibit

• To encourage someone to do something

• To pay taxes on imported goods

• To provide transportation to groups with limited other options

• to prevent from doing something.

an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land

• colony

• tariff

• prohibit

• scientific revolution

Tariff

• The idea that people give the government power

• A tax on foreign goods brought into a country

• To discuss or argue, usually in public

• Colonist militias who were self trained and volunteered to be ready for service at a moments notice.

Refusal to buy or use certain products

• Boycott

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

• Minutement

A formal written request to someone in authority that is signed by a group of people

• Heliocentric

• Colony

• Petition

• Revolution

A colonist who favored war AGAINST the British

• Patriot

• Loyalist

A colonist who remained loyal to the British

• Patriot

• Loyalist

An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency

• Militia

• Petition

• Boycott

• Debate

Guerilla

• A fighter who uses hit and run attacks

• The largest living primate

• A system of basic rules and principles by which a government is organized