Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

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

• Despotism

• Minutemen

• First Continental Congress

• Loyalists

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

• Patriots

• Preamble

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

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

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

• Petition

• Despotism

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

• Second Continental Congress

• Petition

• Preamble

• Social Contract

American colonists who favored American independence and supported the Revolutionary War

• Patriots

• Petition

• Second Continental Congress

• Loyalists

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

• Petition

• Despotism

• Social contract

• Sections of the Declaration of Independence

This Congress set up a post office, authorized the printing of money, and created the Continental Army

• Second Continental Congress

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• First Continental Congress

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

• Minutemen

• Patriots

• Despotism

• Loyalists

Preamble, list of rights colonists believed they should have, complaints against Britain, and declaring independence

• Petition

• Sections of the Declaration of Independence

• Social Contract

• Second Continental Congress

A formal request for government action

• Natural Rights

• Petition

• Social Contract

• Preamble