Towards Independence Vocabulary (2023 from Quizlet)

Definition: to cancel an act or law

• Loyalists

• Tyranny

• Repeal

• Boycott

Definition: Cruel and oppressive government or rule

• Tyranny

• Militia

• Boycott

• Patriots

Definition: in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troops in barns and empty houses

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

Definition: refuse to buy

• Patriots

• Repeal

• Boycott

• Tyranny

Definition: a volunteer army

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Boycott

• Militia

Definition: Law requiring the American colonists to pay a tax on tea thereby leading to the Boston Tea Party protest

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

Definition: law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Proclamation of 1763

• Proclamation of 1764

• Proclamation of 1758

• Proclamation of 1762

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

American colonists who opposed British policies and many were willing to go to war for Independence

• Sons Of Liberty

• Militia

• Patriots

• Loyalists

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Loyalists

• Stamp Act

• Patriots

• Sons of Liberty