Revolutionary War Vocab

Civilians during Revolutionary era, sworn to be ready to fight with only one minute's notice

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Rebels

• Patriots

John Locke's theory that all humans have the rights to life, freedom, and property

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Petition

• Despotism

Preamble is...

• A formal request for government action

• A form of government where an individual has complete and unchecked power

• The introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written

• An agreement between a government and its people that defines the rights and duties of each party

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

• Second Continental Congress

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutement

American colonists who favored American independence and supported the Revolutionary War

• Loyalists

• Militia

• Patriots

• Minutemen

What are the sections of the Declaration of Independence?

• Preamble, despotism, complaints, demands

• Introduction, social contract, natural rights, preamble

• List of rights Britain should have, preamble, declaring independence

• Preamble, list of the rights colonists believed they should have, complaints against Britain, proclaiming the existence of a new nation

Describes an agreement between a government and its people that defines the rights and duties of each party

• Despotism

• Social contract

• Petition

• Congress

A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that would represent Americans and challenge British control

• Continental Army

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Senate

A formal request for government action

• Constitution

• Despotism

• Petition

• Repeal

A form of government where an individual has complete and unchecked power

• Despotism

• Democracy

• Authoritarian

• Monarchy