4th Grade SS Chapter 5

Formal meeting or law-making body

Phillis Wheatley was a former slave that wrote poetry about the struggles for freedom

Taxes on many goods that the colonist imported from Britain

to sign up for armed services for only a short time

Who was chosen as the committee to create the document declaring independence and explaining why it was necessary.

Abigail Adams

Repeal means to cancel

to reach an agreement on, a peace treaty

Daughters of liberty was a group of women that weaved their own clothing

The crime of fighting against ones own country

An undecided person is a neutral person

George III was king of Great Britain and supported the idea of taxing colonist

a piece of land nearly surrounded by water

The killing of many people

The American were winning the war because they were fighting on

spirits of the troops

Petition is a written request for rights or benefits

Who said the war was inevitable and was famous for a speech

A volunteer army,

People freedom is also their

Who was Samuel Adams?

This take place when people act together and refuse to use or buy something

Controlled by the military under British general Thomas Gage

He warned the people about the militia

Freedom from rule by other

Owed money

mercenaries or soldiers who are paid to fight for another country

It is unknown who fired the first shot

Disguised as a man in the army. Fought in several battles

Give food and shelter to British troops

An army of paid soldiers from the colonies

Crispus Attucks was a sailor who had escaped slavery

Peter Salem was an African American in the war that

Alliance

Strategy is

a life sized puppet