American Revolution vocabulary

A company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry.

• legislature

• militia

• monopoly

• bill of rights

Part of a government that makes laws

• Freedom of the press

• divine right

• legislature

• Bill of rights

Right of newspaper and other public media to publish articles believed to be accurate

• Petition

• Freedom of the press

• Parliament

• Duty

Organized campaign to refuse to buy or use certain goods and services

• magna carta

• parliament

• duty

• boycott

American colonial militia volunteer who was prepared to fight at a minute's notice

• minuteman

• militia

• continental army

• treaty

Organized body of armed volunteers

• the enlightenment

• parliament

• militia

• boycott

To cancel

• repeal

• boycott

• separation of powers

• monopoly

Rebel army of colonial American soldiers that fought against the British during the American Revolution

• Continental Army

• Militia

• Minuteman

• Redcoat

The first English document to limit the rights of kings and nobles, signed in 1215 AD

• Magna Carta

• petition

• boycott

• bill of rights

A British soldier during the American Revolution

• Boycott

• Continental Army

• Militia

• Redcoat