American Revolution Vocab

British order forbidding colonists to settle west of the Appalachians

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

government income

• grievance

• militia

• revenue

• boycott

A secret society organized to oppose British policies

• Committee of Correspondance

• First Continetal Congress

• loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

Colonists who supported the colonial rebels

• Thomas Jefferson

• Loyalist

• Patriots

• Paul Revere

Answer explanation

Native American Revolt against the British in 1763

• French and Indian War

• Proclamation of 1763

• Quartering Act

• Pontiac's Rebellion

Meeting held in Philadelphia in 1774 to decide what to do about problems with Britain

• Committee of Correspondance

• First Continental Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• Boston Tea Party

Sites of the first battles of the Revolutionary War

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress

• Treaty of Paris

A ruler who uses power unjustly or cruelly

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Tyrant

• Grievance

African American killed by British in the Boston Massacre

• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

• Crispus Attucks

a force of armed civilians who pledge to defend their community

• Grievance

• Militia

• Minuteman

• Tyrant