American Revolution Vocabulary

Income/ money-made

• Revenue

• Occupation

• Boycott

• Loyalists

When you refuse to buy or use something→ like a protest

• Sons of Liberty

• Revenue

• Boycott

• Propaganda

A secret group that did not like the British government

• Daughters of Freedom

• Olive Branch Petition

• Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

Information that is wrong on purpose to make people think a certain way

• Income

• Propaganda

• Common Sense

• Martial Law

When the military is in charge

• Martial Law

• Law and Order

• Boston Massacre

• Olive Branch Petition

A letter to the King of Great Britain. Colonists’ last effort to avoid war

• The Constitution

• The 1st Amendment

• Olive Branch Petition

• Mayflower Compact

Writings that tried to get colonists to go against Great Britain

• Braveheart

• Ramsay the Patriot

• Mercantilism

• Common Sense

True or False: A loyalist was a person that did not want independence from Great Britain

• True

• False