Revolutionary War Vocabulary

Word Definition
Act: Law

Import: GOODS COMING FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY

Boycott: an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products

Petition: a formal written request, typically signed by many people, appealing to authority over government issues

the coats of arms marshalled on a shield to denote the marriages into a family of the heiresses of others.
Quartering: the provision of accommodations or lodgings, especially for troops.

Writs of court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying what they were searching for
Assistance:
Repeal: revoke or take back a law

Propaganda: information, especially of a misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.

Monopoly: total control of a market for a certain product

a military force raised from civilian population to be used as a regular army in an emergency
Militia:

Patriots: Want American

independence
2. Against the British
3. Sons of Liberty
Tories: 1. Remain loyal to the King
4. Support boycotts/protests
2. Pro British government
3. Think SOL are
troublemakers
Minutemen: citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice
4. Usually wealthy
colonists

Olive Branch a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in
which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens. The Olive Branch
Petition: Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775.
Introduction
Preamble:

the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
Espionage:

Blockade: an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
"there was a blockade of humanitarian aid"

Guerilla form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or
irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to
warfare: fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
Privateer: an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in
war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping.

Inoculation: the action of inoculating or of being inoculated; vaccination.

 First Continental Second Continental
Both:
Congress Congress

The delegates met in secret because

colonial governments were illegal
The Congress met again in
1. 1. May 1775- after Lexington
and Concord
After the petition for peace was
rejected Congress began to plan for
1. independence

George Washington was

2. They demanded a repeal of the Intolerable 2.appointed to be the
Acts & the right to govern themselves Commander in Chief of
troops

2. A year into war, Congress agreed

to declare America as independent
from England

They also tried for peace

ONE. LAST. TIME. They sent
3. They also decided to train their own militias
3. the Olive Branch Petition

King George III rejected

their Petition and declared
the Americans were in open
rebellion
 1. Briefly describe the Boston Tea Party:
On the night of December 6, 1773 Samuel Adams led the Sons of Liberty to Boston Harbor where the tea shipment
waited
2. They dressed as Native Americans and boarded the ship
3. The Sons of Liberty spent 3 hours throwing ALL tea into Boston Harbor- 342 cases
2. 4.What
92,000was Pontiac’s
pounds Rebellion?
of tea was destroyed
　＂ Today
Chief Pontiac formed
that’s an alliance of
$750,000worth of NA tribes　＂that
damage ledcolonists
Other a rebellion againstto
gathered the British and Americans
watch/cheer

3. What was the Proclamation of 1763?

American colonists are not allowed to move into designated NA territory- but they do

4. What was the Quartering Act?

Passed in 1765, colonists had to pay for and provide housing for British troops (soldiers decided they wanted to live in
people’s homes…)
5. Put these events in order: French and Indian War, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, Tea Act,
First Continental Congress
Boston Tea Party, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, French and indian war

6. Put these events in order: Tea Act, Committee of Correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Boston
Massacre
boston massacre, Committee of Correspondence, boston tea party, tea act,

7. What led the Sons of Liberty?

Sons of Liberty (led by Sam Adams)
decide to protest the Tea Act
8. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
Patrick Henry

9. Who was the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army?

George Washington

10. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

11. Who wrote Common Sense?

Thomas Paine

12. What did Benjamin Franklin do during the Revolutionary War?

13. Who rode through the streets of Massachusetts to warn the minutemen?
Paul Revere

14. What did John Hancock do during the Revolutionary War?

15. Who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre?