American Revolution TERMS

To have someone speak or act for you. ​​

• Treason
• Representation

• Protest

• Tariff

American soldiers who fought for independence and could be ready in a minute’s notice.

• Tariff

• Monopoly

• Minutemen

• Redcoats

Refuse to buy or use goods or services.

• Monopoly

• Boycott

• Tariff

• Treason

To object to a certain policy.

• Mercenary

• Loyalists

• Protest

• Treason

Volunteer army.

• Militia

• Redcoats

• Minutemen

• Loyalists

Colonists who were loyal to Britain and King George.

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Redcoats

• Militia

Professional soldier paid to fight for another country.

• Militia

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Mercenary

Formed by Samuel Adams; faster way to communicate between colonies; used express riders.

• Representation

• Committees of Correspondence

• Mercenary

• Patriots

Colonists who wanted self-rule; opposed British rule.

• Patriots

• Redcoats

• Loyalists

• Militia

British soldiers who fought against the colonists.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Redcoats