Colonial Government

A lawmaking body

• assembly

• constable

• delegates

• treason

The making of or passing of laws

• legislation

• delegation

• assembly

• treason

A group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution

• militia

• assembly

• delegation

• legislation

a member of an elected assembly

• delegate

• militia

• legislative

• treason

a town officer or police officer

• constable

• delegate

• assembly

• treason

the betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy

• treason

• constable

• militia

• assembly

Virginia planter, a Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence

• Richard Henry Lee

• John Locke

• Phillys Wheatley

• John Peter Zenger

English philosopher whose thinking influenced Thomas Jefferson

• Richard Henry Lee

• John Locke

• John Peter Zenger

• Phillys Wheatley

Newspaper printer whose trial in 1734 helped to establish the idea of freedom of the press

• John Peter Zenger

• John Lafayette

• Phillis Wheatley

• John Woolman

Enslaved Africa American poet whose poems called for fair treatment for all people

• Phillis Wheatley

• John Peter Zenger

• John Locke

• Richard Henry Lee