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50 wordsin connection withThe American Revolution

The belief that measures should be taken to end slavery

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Abolitionism

A system in which one personusually a king or queenrules without any kind of restrictions on his or her actions

Absolutism

Loyalty to king, country, or a cause

Allegiance

An agreement among the thirteen original states, approved in 1781, that provided a loose form of government before the present Constitution went into effect in 1789

Articles of Confederation

One of the names used by the colonies for their lawmaking bodies

Assemblies

A encounter between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary Wa.r The British fired into a crowd and five Americans were killed

Boston Tea Party

A refusal to buy, sell, or use certain products from a particular company or country, usually for a political reason

Boycott

An old term for members of the British Parliament; the lawmaking body of colonial Virginia called itself the House of Burgesses

Burgesses

The British name for the Intolerable Acts

Coercive Acts

The extension of the power of a nation beyond its own borders

Colonialism

Territories that are settled by emigrants from a distant land that remain subject to or closely connected with the parent country

Colonies

A group of states united for a common purpose

Confederation

People who wish to preserve society's existing institutions

Conservatives

The army of American colonists formed during the American Revolution

Continental army

An assembly of delegates from the American colonies (later states) that governed before and during the Revolutionary War and under the Articles of Confederation

Continental Congress

The document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776

Declaration of Independence

A system of government in which power belongs to the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives

Democracy

Taxes on imported or exported goods

Duties

One who supports a strong central government instead of a loose organization of states

Federalist

A general name for male American patriots during the Revolutionary War, especially the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the drafters of the Constitution

Founding Fathers

A series of military battles between Great Britain and France (and France's Native American allies) that took place on the American frontier and in Canada between 1754 and 1763

French and Indian War

An event lasting from 1789 to 1799 that ended the thousand-year rule of kings in France and established France as a republic

French Revolution

German soldiers hired by King George III to fight for the British during the American Revolution. Many came from Hesse-Cassel, and, as a result, all German soldiers were called like that

Hessians

Four laws passed by the British government in 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

Colonists who remained loyal to England during the Revolution; also known as Tories

Loyalists

Soldiers for hire

Mercenaries

A military force consisting of citizens rather than professional soldiers

Militia

Armed American citizens (nonmilitary) who promised to be ready to fight alongside regular soldiers at a moment's notice

Minutemen

Rule by a king or queen

Monarchy

A type of shoulder gun that shoots bullets resembling balls

Musket

Not committed to either side of an issue

Neutral

The region in the northeastern United States that includes present-day Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The name was probably given by English explorer John Smith, one of the original settlers of Jamestown, Virginia (1607), because the region resembled the coast of England

New England

A European term for North and South America

New World

A person who loves, supports, and defends his country

Patriot

A formal document making a request

Petition

A sailor on a privately owned ship who is authorized by the government to attack and capture enemy vessels

Privateer

Biased or distorted information spread by persons who wish to present only their point of view and thus further their own cause

Propaganda

A member of the Religious Society of Friends, which oppose all violence and warfare

Quaker

A person who favors revolutionary changes in a nation's political structure

Radical

A person who resists or defies ruling authority

Rebel

British soldiers, who wore red uniforms

Redcoats

A sudden political overthrow; a forcible substitution of rulers

Revolution

The conflict lasting from 1775 to 1783 in which American colonists gained independence from British rule

Revolutionary War

Acts or language leading to rebellion

Sedition

A law passed by the British government in 1765 that required the payment of a tax to Great Britain on papers and documents produced in the colonies

Stamp Act

The colonies that made up the original United States upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia

Thirteen Colonies

Colonists who remained loyal to England during the Revolution; also called Loyalists

Tories

Laws passed by the British government in 1767. They included a Quartering Act, which ordered the colonies to house British troops, and a Revenue Act, which called for taxes on lead, glass, paint, tea, and other items

Townshend Acts

Betrayal of king and country

Treason

Absolute power, especially power exercised cruelly or unjustly

Tyranny

Once a nickname for people from the New England colonies, the word is now applied to anyone from the United States

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