Revolution in the Colonies Vocabulary Quiz

What is a boycott?

• Colonists who supported independence

• A protest in which people don’t purchase controversial items

• A law that is repealed

• A crime against a government to which one should be loyal

What does it mean to repeal a law?

• A protest in which people don’t purchase controversial items

• To undo a law

• Colonists who supported independence

• A crime against a government to which one should be loyal

What is treason?

• A protest in which people don’t purchase controversial items

• A law that is repealed

• A crime against a government to which one should be loyal

• Colonists who supported independence

Who were the patriots?

• A law that is repealed

• Colonists who supported independence

• A protest in which people don’t purchase controversial items

• A crime against a government to which one should be loyal

Who were the loyalists?

• A protest in which people don’t purchase controversial items

• A law that is repealed

• Colonists who remained loyal to the British government

• A crime against a government to which one should be loyal

What is a tax?

• Local militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice

• A situation in which one company has complete control of an entire market

• Money one person, organization, or government owes to another person, organization, or government

• Ways that the government can collect money from its citizens to pay for things that the people need

What is debt?

• Ways that the government can collect money from its citizens to pay for things that the people need

• Local militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice

• A situation in which one company has complete control of an entire market

• Money one person, organization, or government owes to another person, organization, or government

What is a monopoly?

• Money one person, organization, or government owes to another person, organization, or government

• Ways that the government can collect money from its citizens to pay for things that the people need

• Local militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice

• A situation in which one company has complete control of an entire market

Who were the minutemen?

• Ways that the government can collect money from its citizens to pay for things that the people need

• Money one person, organization, or government owes to another person, organization, or government

• A situation in which one company has complete control of an entire market

• Local militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice

What is tyranny?

• Ways that the government can collect money from its citizens to pay for things that the people need

• Money one person, organization, or government owes to another person, organization, or government

• Rule by an often harsh absolute power

• Local militia that could be ready to fight in a minutes notice