Topic 2: American Revolution

Someone int he colonies who supported the American Revolution

• Patriot

• Loyalists

• Redcoats

• Mercenary

Someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to England; also known as a tory

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Mercenary

• Redcoats

Having ships surround an area so that no goods or people can pass through

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Boycott

• Blockade

• Loyalist

Strategy for refusing to purchase goods in the hopes of weakening the boycotted party

• Blockade

• Boycott

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Great Awakening

Style of fighting used by the Continental Army which included hit-and-run, surprise attacks, and ambushing the British

• Mayflower Compact

• Blockade

• Boycott

• Guerrilla Warfare

The first elected assembly of the New World; represented the people of the Jamestown Colony

• House of Burgesses

• House of Burgers

• Virginia Company

• Joint Stock Company

Someone who agrees to work for a period in exchange for passage to the New World

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Indentured Servant

• Quaker

Strict religious group who fled England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Patriot

• Mercenary

Peaceful religious group who settled in Pennsylvania after William Penn established the colony

• Puritans

• Indentured Servant

• Patriot

• Quakers

First governing document of Plymouth Colony which was written aboard the Mayflower by the Pilgrims before settling the colony

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Direct Democracy

• Great Awakening