American Revolution Vocab

Question 1

was part of the Sons of Liberty group who wanted to break away from Britain

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Samuel Adams

Question 2

colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

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Loyalists

Question 3

1. A Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces won

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Trenton

Question 4

American colonial militia members ready to fight in a minutes notice

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Minutemen

Question 5

law passed by Parliament raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp

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Stamp Act

Question 6

the document written to declare the colonists free from British rule

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Declaration of Independence

Question 7

Battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight the British

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Bunker Hill

Question 8

a Virginian colonist, author of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

It required each colonist to provide a place in their homes for British soldiers

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Quartering Act

Question 10

a law allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies

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Tea Act

Question 11

British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution

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Redcoats

Question 12

a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and promoted independence

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Common Sense

Question 13

laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and tighten control

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Intolerable Acts

Question 14

an incident when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists killed five people

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Boston Massacre

Question 15

a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British teas ships

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Boston Tea Party

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