Social Studies Chap. 7 Vocab.

Freedom from British rule.

• Seize

• Patriot

• Independence

• Declaration of Rights

To capture

• Surrender

• Continental Army

• Seize

• Loyalist

a Lawmaking body.

• Second Continental Congress

• Loyalist

• Legislature

• Patriot

To give up.

• Independence

• Seize

• Surrender

• Declaration of Rights

A colonist who wanted to stay under British rule.

• Legislature

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Independence

a colonist who was in favor of a new nation,free from British rule.

• Seize

• Loyalist

• Surrender

• Patriot

The 1775 gathering of representatives from the 13 colonies at Independence hall in Philadelphia, at which the Olive Branch Petition was written and a continental Army was formed.

• Article of Confederation

• Independence

• Declaration of Rights

• Second Continental Congress

This formed the army in 1775 to protect the 13 colonies during conflict with Britain.

• Continental Army

• Legislature

• Declaration of Rights

• Article of Confederation

a document defining the rights of Pennsylvania, written by Pennsylvania's one-house legislature in 1776.

• Article of Confederation

• Continental Army

• Declaration of Rights

• Independence

a set of laws adopted in 1777 by the newly independent United States, forming a weak central government with no main leader.

• Continental Army

• Declaration of Rights

• Articles of confederation

• Second Continental congress