SS8H3: American Revolution vocab terms

a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose

• foe

• ally

• patriot

• Ben Franklin

a request to do something, commonly addressed to a government official or public entity

• natural rights

• declaration

• petition

• boycott

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest

• boycott

• petition

• banned

• exile

a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency

• war

• revolution

• battle

• militia

a supporter of American independence

• patriot

• loyalist

• colonist

• trustee

a supporter of the British crown

• patriot

• loyalist

• colonist

• trustee

Commander of the Continental Army; 1st president

• Ben Franklin

• Elijah Clarke

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

member of the Continental Congress; forefather of the U.S.; great negotiator with France

• Ben Franklin

• Elijah Clarke

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area; the North American part of the '7 Years War'- a global war being fought between England and France

• American Revolution

• Battle of Kettle Creek

• WWII

• French & Indian War

meant to keep settlers from moving east of the Appalachian Mountains into the 'Ohio River Valley'- this angered British colonists

• Treaty of Paris

• Proclamation of 1763

• stamp act

• intolerable acts