American Revolution Vocabulary

The refusal to buy a good as part of a protest. 

• Boycott

• Salutary

  Neglect

• Effigy

• Tyranny

Common Sense

• A protest against the Tea Act of 1773 performed by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The men boarded three ships filled with tea, broke the containers, and poured the tea overboard. 

• This is straw model of a person. Usually these were created with the idea that they would be burned or destroyed as a protest. 

• This was pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged the thirteen colonies to seek independence from Great Britain.

• This was the location fought over during the French and Indian War.

Declaratory Act

• This act placed taxes on sugar and molasses and increased the enforcement of these taxes.

• This act restated the power of Parliament to tax the American colonies after the Stamp Act protests.

• To secretly import illegal goods

• This act created a tax on many printed goods including newspapers and playing cards.

This picture shows one way colonists would scare tax collectors and other British supporters

• Tarred and Feathered

• Parliment

• smuggling

• effigy

This was the location fought over during the French and Indian War.

• Ohio River Valley

• Appalachian Mountains

• Georgia Colony

• Canada

These laws were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The acts closed the port of Boston, restored British control of the colonial government, and denied the colonies their own trials. 

• Boston Massacre

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

These are people that supported the British in the Colonies

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• England

• Colonists

These are people that wished to separate from Britain. They supported Independence from England.

• Patriot

• Loyalits

• Colonists

• King George III

Militia...

• Men who volunteered to serve as a militia member “At a minute’s notice.”

• These were colonists who supported American independence. 

• Considered “citizen soldiers,” all able-bodied men were members of the militia during the colonial era.

•  wooden pole often with flags that was used as a symbol of liberty

Parliament was

• This term refers to cruel and unfair rule by  government or a leader. 

• The lawmaking body of the English government. They are the form of Representative government

• This means to cancel an act of law officially. 

• To secretly import illegal goods.