Towards Independence Unit Vocabulary Review (24)

refuse to buy

• Boycott

• Fundraiser

• Picket

• Petition

a volunteer army

• Continental Army

• Ally

• Militia

• Redcoats

to cancel an act or law

• Repeal

• Enact

• Legislate

• Ratify

Cruel and oppressive government or rule

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Tyranny
• Oligarchy

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Federalists
• Whigs

American colonists who opposed British policies and many were willing to go to war for Independence

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Federalists
• Whigs

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

• Salutary Neglect
• Colonial Resistance
• Mercantilism
• Navigation Acts

law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Proclamation of 1763
• Treaty of Paris
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Sons of Liberty
• Tories

• Patriots of Freedom
• Yankees

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act