American Revolution Vocabulary

Question 1

When people refuse to buy certain goods in order to economically pressure the business/authority to change the policy

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Boycott

Question 2

warships surround the other country their army in battle to prevent them from trade and gaining supplies

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Naval Blockade

Question 3

countries/or friends during wartime

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Alliances

Question 4

surprise attacks on easy targets

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Guerilla Attacks

Question 5

Tax on Tea

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Tea Act

Question 6

grow more intense

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Escalation

Question 7

Taxed all paper goods and legal documents

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Stamp Act

Question 8

closed ports of Boston and replaced Colonial legislature with Martial Law

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Intolerable Acts

Question 9

Representatives from 13 colonies met i to discuss creating the continental Army to evict the British from Boston.

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Second Continental Congress

Question 10

Fighting between British army and the Continental Army

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American Revolution

Question 11

putting colonies militia together to form an army

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Continental Army

Question 12

colonists who supported independence from Great Britain

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Patriot

Question 13

-Would not allow colonist to settle in Ohio River Valley

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Proclamation of 1763

Question 14

Great Britain allowed colonist independence, as long as they were making money from them

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Salutary Neglect

Question 15

Colonist through all British tea into the Boston harbor

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Boston Tea Party

Question 16

taxed goods being exported by Britain to the colonies

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Townshend Acts

Question 17

freedom/independence

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Liberty

Question 18

When the army takes charge and becomes the government

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Martial Law

Question 19

Colonists who wanted to remain loyal to England

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Loyalist

Questions 19