VOCAB - The Road to Revolution

A tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.

• Terrain

• Geology

• Writ

The science that deals with the dynamics and physical history of the earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the physical, chemical, and biological changes that the earth has undergone or is undergoing.

• Terrain

• Artillery

• Geology

Mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.

• Artillery

• Terrain

• Boycott

A wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress.

• Boycott

• Repeal

• Grievance

Arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.

• Tyranny

• Militia

• Artillery

To abstain from buying or using.

• Militia

• Repeal

• Boycott

A body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.

• Militia

• Artillery

• Tyranny

An American colonial militia member who was ready to join combat a moment's notice.

• Minuteman

• Tyranny

• Terrain

An intellectrual movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine previously accepted beliefs.

• Tyranny

• Enlightenment

• Militia

An American colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution.

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Minuteman