The road to Revolution vocabulary

Match the following

• Committee of Correspondence

• Created to help towns share information about resisting British laws

• Patriots

• Laws passed by parliament to punish the colonist and tighten government control

• Boycott

• Colonist who sided with Britain in the American Revolution

• Intolerable Acts

• Colonist who fought for independence from Britain

• Loyalists

• Refusing to buy particular goods

These _________ were colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice.

• Militia

• Minutemen

• Mightymen

• Redcoats

To owe someone a ____ is to owe them a sum of money

• debt

• dollar

• privateer

• cash app

__________ is created to change people's opinions or get them to act in a certain way.

• boycott

• newsletter

• pamphlet

• propaganda

Colonist were unhappy with the Legislation and voted to ______ it.

• reverse

• repeal

• remove

• approve

Match the following

• Required colonist to pay for official stamp or seal when they brought paper items

• Tea Act

• Required colonist to house British soldiers

• Stamp Act

• Placed duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.

• Sugar act

• Passed to raise money from the colonies for Britain

• Quartering Act

• Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonist

• Townsend Act

A loosely organized, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies

• Sons of Anarchy

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Sam

a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.

• Tyranny

• Preamble

• Petition

• Grievances

cruel and oppressive government or rule.

• Tyranny

• Preamble

• Common Sense

• Petition

a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction.

• Preamble

• Petition

• Grievance

• Revolution