Unit 3 Vocabulary Test

A person who lived within the 13 colonies but was still loyal to England.

• Patriot

• Minutemen

• Loyalist

• Tyranny

Military operation in which enemy forces cut off essential supplies, compelling surrender of enemies.

• Guerilla Warfare

• Siege

• Committee of Correspondence

• Boycott

A group of American colonists who disagreed with British rule and organized protests or other ways to fight back against Great Britain, sometimes violent ideas.

• Continental Army

• Sons of Liberty

• Red Coats

• Loyalist

A roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger.

• Resolution

• Boycott

• Red Coat

• Effigy

To revoke or annul a law or congressional act.

• Grievances

• Boycott

• Repeal

• Resolution

Cruel or oppressive government or rule.

• Minutemen

• Grievances

• Tyranny

• Siege

The name of the army representing the 13 colonies.

• Continental Army

• Red Coats

• Minutemen

• Sons of Liberty

A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.

• Boycott

• Tyranny

• Resolution

• Grievance

An act of nonviolent protest of a product, person, organization, or country.

• Boycott

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Resolution

A nickname for the soldiers of Great Britain.

• Continental Army

• Red Coats

• Minutemen

• Patriots