American Revolution Vocabulary

Law passed by Parliament to try to raise money

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston tea Party

Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonist dumped British tea into the Boston harbor

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

Colonists who were loyal to Britain

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Egalitarianism

• Bros

Colonists who wanted independence from Britain

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Egalitarianism

• Lafayette

Rise in the price of goods

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Inflation

• Egalitarianism

A belief in equality

• Egalitarianism

• Inflation

• Patriots

• Loyalists

A government in which the people elect representatives to govern

• Inflation

• Republic

• Federalism

• Ratification

System in which power is shared between the national government and state governments

• republic

• federalism

• ratification
  

• Federalists