an army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency

• Minutemen

• Military

• Navy

• Militia

colonial militia volunteers who were prepared to fight at a minute's notice

• Minutemen

• Colonial Army

• Militia

• Patriots

a series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party

• Tolerable Acts

• Unalienable Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Bearable Acts

a law that set up a government for Canada and protected the rights of French Catholics.

• Quebec Act

• Quitter Act

• Canada Act

• Colonial Act

in 1774, a meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• First Colonial Congress

• First American Congress

in 1775, the conflicts between Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the Revolutionary War

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Ticonderoga

• Battle of Boston

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

a colonist who favored war against Britain

• Loyalist

• Faithful

• Patriot

• Favorable

an army established by the Second Continental Congress to fight the British

• Colonial Army

• Continental Army

• Patriot's Army

• Covenantal Army

a Vermont colonial militia led by Ethan Allen that made a surprise attack on Forth Ticonderoga

• Green Allen Boys

• Allen Mountain Boys

• Vermont Mountain Boys

• Green Mountain Boys

a peace petition sent to King George by colonial delegates after the battles of Lexington and Concord

• Olive Peace Petition

• Olive Tree Petition

• Olive Branch Petition

• Olive Peace Petition