American Revolution Vocabulary #2

Hey Mason, do you know what the Albany Plan of Union was all about?

• Ben Franklin's idea to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War ("Join, or Die!")

• early colonial law that said colonies can only trade with England

• illegally bringing goods into a country

• tax on molasses

Hey history buffs! Can you help Mason and Abigail figure out which peace treaty ended the French and Indian War, giving Britain the land between the Atlantic Ocean and Mississippi River?

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• smuggle

• Albany Plan of Union

• Treaty of Paris is 1783

Match the following

• refusal to buy certain goods (in hopes o

• smuggle

• illegally bringing goods into a country

• Sugar Act

• tax on molasses

• Quartering Act

• colonists must provide shelter to the Br

• boycott

Match the following

• Boston Massacre

• led a boycott on household goods

• Crispus Attucks

• British soldiers fired on and killed 5 American colonists

• Daughters of Liberty

• African American sailor killed at the Boston Massacre and becomes a martyr for the colonial rebellion

• Townshend Act

• indirect tax on British goods (glass, lead, paper, paint, tea) collected at sea ports

Imagine Luna and Zoe are discussing historical events. Luna asks, "Zoe, what do you call the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest, like the Boston Tea Party?" Zoe thinks for a moment and says, "That's an example of (a)   ."

• civil disobedience

• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

Imagine Luna and Rohan are time travelers! They land in Philadelphia and witness the historic (a)   where colonial representatives gather to discuss the Intolerable Acts. What event did they stumble upon?

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Philadelphia Convention

• Constitutional Convention

Hey Mason, can you guess which (a)   pulled off these epic feats?

1. Sent an Olive Branch Petition to the king

2. Created a Continental army

3. Appointed George Washington as commander in chief

4. Signed the Declaration of Independence

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Continental Congress of 1774

• The Articles of Confederation

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) terrain

,

(b) grievance

,

(c) Patriot

,

(d) Loyalist

• American colonist who wanted independence

• landscape

• American colonist who wanted to remain a part of Great Britain

• a complaint

Match the following

• Abigail Adams

• wrote Patriotic propaganda in the form of poetry, songs, and plays

• Crispus Attucks

• an advocate for women's rights when she told her husband to "Remember the Ladies"

• Mercy Otis Warren

• African American sailor killed at the Boston Massacre and becomes a martyr for the colonial rebellion

• Patrick Henry

• "Give me LIBERTY or give me DEATH!!"

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) tax

,

(b) new rules or laws

,

(c) correspondence

• duty

• communication

• levy

• proclamation

• tariff

• act