Road to Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

An agreement between nations or groups to aid and support one another.

• boycott

• alliance

• adversary

A refusal to buy or use goods and services.

• boycott

• repeal

• revenue

Groups organized in the 1770s to keep colonists informed of important events and to coordinate action against the British.

• Militias

• Parliament

• Committees of Correspondence

A crude dummy or image representing a hated person or group.

• resolution

• propaganda

• effigy

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Colonist

An economic system where the British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country. England put limits on what goods the colonies could produce, whose ships they could use, and most importantly, with whom they could trade.

• Capitalism

• Revenue

• Mercantilism

Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds.

• Redcoat

• Minutemen

• Loyalist

Failure or refusal to import goods into an area.

• nonimportation

• open trade

• mercantilism

American colonist who favored American independence and supported the American Revolution.

• Patriot

• Loyalist

A formal written request for government action.

• resolution

• repeal

• petition