Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor

• First Continental Congress

• Redcoats

• Committees of Correspondence

• Guerilla Warfare

Required each colonist to provide a place in their home or quarter for British soldiers

• Minutemen

• Quartering Act

• Mercenaries

• Guerilla Warfare

Colonists who sided with the British in the Revolutionary War

• Minutemen

•  Patriots

• Loyalists

• Mercenaries

Hit and run fighting tactics

• Redcoats

• Guerilla Warfare

• Mercenaries

• Quartering Act

Created by the Massachusetts House of Reps in the 1760’s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting British laws

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

• Minutemen

• Guerilla Warfare

American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minutes notice

• Redcoats

• Mercenaries

• Minutemen

• Patriots

Hired foreign soldiers

• Loyalists

• Mercenaries

• Patriots

• Minutemen

Nickname given to the British soldiers because of their bright red uniforms

• Mercenaries

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Redcoats

 Colonists in favor of fighting for independence

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Mercenaries

Act created in 1764; placed a tax on molasses and sugar

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Acts