Revolution in the Colonies Vocabulary Review Game

To refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source; an organized refusal by many people

• boycott

• militia

• ally

• strategy

a small army made up of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency

• petition

• American Revolution

• Continental army

• militia

to take back, or to cancel, a law

• boycott

• repeal

• independence

• natural rights

unjust government

• tyranny

• Common Sense

• petition

• American Revolution

a pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence

• natural rights

• petition

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

the document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule

• Olive Branch Petition

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris

freedom from control by another government or country

• repeal

• ally

• independence

• natural rights

rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law

• natural rights

• independence

• Declaration of Independence

• tyranny

a formal, written request made to an official person or organization

• petition

• ally

• strategy

• boycott

a nation that joins another nation in some common effort, such as fighting a war

• ally

• strategy

• petition

• militia