American Revolution Vocabulary

Something to prevent goods and people from moving in and out of an area.

• Blockade

• Common Sense

• Loyalist

• Compromise

Document in which the colonies declared independence from Great Britain July 4, 1776.

• Treaty of Paris

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Alliance

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince colonists that it was time to become independent.

• Treaty of Paris

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Alliance

England recognized American independence in this treaty.

• Treaty of Paris

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Alliance

Agreement where the French army promised to support the American militia in fighting the British.

• Treaty of Paris

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Alliance

The army formed by the Second Continental Congress to defend the colonies as a whole.

• Inalienable/Unalienable Rights

• Stamp Act

• Continental Army

• Proclamation of 1763

Rights that cannot be taken away.

• Inalienable/Unalienable Rights

• Stamp Act

• Continental Army

• Proclamation of 1763

Official announcement from the British government that ended all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Inalienable/Unalienable Rights

• Stamp Act

• Continental Army

• Proclamation of 1763

Law passed in 1765 by British parliament that forced people to pay a tax on items such as newspapers and legal documents.

• Inalienable/Unalienable Rights

• Stamp Act

• Continental Army

• Proclamation of 1763

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American Independence was won.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Compromise

• Preamble