Road to Revolution Vocabulary - Part Two

A series of laws that punished Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

A meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights.

• First Continental Congress

• Committee of Correspondence

• Writs of Assistance

• Militia

Boston silversmith who famously rode through the night warning colonists that the British army was marching towards Concord, Massachusetts.

• Patrick Henry

• Paul Revere

• John Adams

• King George III

The first battles of the American Revolution.

• Writs of Assistance

• Boston Tea Party

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington & Concord

A force of armed civilians who pledged to defend their community.

• Militia

• Committee of Correspondence

• Writs of Assistance

• Continental Army

Armed civilians who were trained to be ready "at a minute's notice."

• Minutemen

• Militia

• Bunker Hill

• Committee of Correspondence

The American fighting force in the American Revolution, with George Washington as its commanding general.

• Militia

• Minutemen

• Continental Army

• Bunker Hill

A pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that explained why the colonies should declare independence from England.

• Common Sense

• Writs of Assistance

• Committee of Correspondence

• Lexington & Concord

A battle fought in June 1775; British victory but gave the American colonists confidence in their fighting ability.

• Lexington & Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Militia

• Continental Army

The British monarch during the American Revolution

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

• King George III

• Paul Revere