• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/20

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

20 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
The war between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies from 1775 to 1783 that led to the founding of the United States of America.
American Revolution
A lawmaking body
assembly
Costly British “victory” in 1775 over Colonial forces at a site near Charleston, Massachusetts.
Battle of Bunker Hill
A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
To refuse to do business or have contact with a person, group, country, or product.
boycott
A member of an elected assembly.
delegate
The assembly of colonial delegates from every colony except Georgia that met in 1774 in Philadelphia to oppose the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress
The laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 that closed Boston Harbor, dissolved the Massachusetts assembly, and forced Boston colonists to house British soldiers.
Intolerable Acts
A group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution.
militia
Well-trained volunteer soldiers who defended the American colonies against the British at a minute’s notice.
minutemen
A written request signed by many people.
petition
To oppose those in charge, even to the point of fighting them with weapons, because of different ideas about what is right.
rebel
Groups of colonists who organized themselves to protest against the British government.
Sons of Liberty
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards.
Stamp Act
A government tax on imports or exports.
duty
Colonists who supported the British monarch and laws.
Loyalist
People make their own laws.
self-government
The killing of people who cannot defend themselves.
massacre
The part of the British government in which members make laws for the British people.
Parliament
The cruel use of authority.
tyranny