Events Leading to American Revolution FAC 1

Money that is paid to the government in return for services.

• taxes

• Loyalists

• proclamation

• boycott

• liberty

To illegally move goods in or out of a country.

• independence

• parliament

• smuggling

• tyranny

• Sons of Liberty

A public or official announcement especially one dealing with a matter of great importance.

• daughters of liberty

• taxes

• Continental Congress

• proclamation

• ramrod

The refusal to buy or use certain goods.

• liberty

• Continental Army

• taxes

• boycott

• tory

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

• smuggling

• tyranny

• Declaration of Independence

• Whigs

• liberty

Being free from others, not controlled by opinion, conduct, etc. 

• boycott
• minuteman
• tyranny
• sons of liberty
• independence

In England, the group of individuals who make the laws – similar to the Congress of the United States.

• parliament

• Redcoats

• smuggling

• boycott

• daughters of liberty

A  member of a class of American militiamen during the Revolution who volunteered to be ready for service at a minute's notice.

• Artisan

• Stamp Act

• minutemen

• tyranny

• bayonet

Cruel and oppressive government or rule.

• haversack

• tyranny

• boycott

• minuteman

• Federalist

Secret organization formed in the American colonies in protest against the Stamp Act (1765).

• independence

• parliament

• Lobsterback

• tyranny

• sons of liberty