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American Revolution
Chapter 5
Albany Plan of Union
Boston Massacre
Boycott
First Continental Congress 1774
French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris 1763
Intolerable Acts 1774
Militia
1. _________________________________ : An army of citizens who serve as
soldiers during an emergency
2. _________________________________ : to refuse to buy certain goods or
Services
3. _________________________________ : series of laws passed in 1774 to
punish Boston for the Tea Party
4. ________________________________ : A conflict that occurred in 1770 in
which five colonists were killed by British troops
5. ________________________________ : Proposed by Benjamin Franklin to
create one government for the 13 colonies
6. ________________________________ : a 1754 to 1763 war that led to the
end of French power in North America
7. ________________________________ : a meeting of delegates from 12
colonies in Philadelphia in 1774
8. ________________________________ : an agreement between Britain and
France that ended the French and Indian War in 1763
American Revolution
Minutemen
petition
Proclamation of 1763
repeal
Stamp Act 1765
Tea Act 1773
Townshend Acts 1767
writ
1. ________________________________ : colonial militia volunteers who
were prepared to fight at a minute’s notice
2. ________________________________ : laws passed in 1767 that taxed
goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
3. ________________________________ : laws that let the British East India
Company bypass the tea merchants and sell directly to colonists
4. ________________________________ : law that placed new duties on legal
documents, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards
5. ________________________________ : formal written request to someone in
authority that is signed by a group of people
6. ________________________________ : to cancel
7. ________________________________ : law forbidding English colonists to
settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
8. ________________________________ : a formal written document
Common Sense
Preamble
Ratify
Patriot
Loyalists
Olive Branch Petition
Grievances
Second Continental Congress
Treaty of Paris 1783
John Locke
Natural Rights
Declaration of Independence
1. ________________________________: 1775 meeting of delegates from the
colonies who met and took charge of
the war effort.
2. ________________________________: complaints
3. ________________________________: 1783 treaty that recognized the
United States as an independent nation.
4.________________________________: Colonists who remained loyal to
Britain.
5. ________________________________:a 1776 document stating that the 13
colonies were a free and independent nation.
6.________________________________: rights that belong to people from birth
7. ________________________________: introduction to the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution.
8. ________________________________: Colonists who favor war against
England.
9. ________________________________: An enlightened thinker who believed
in natural rights of life, liberty, property.
10. ________________________________: to approve
11. ________________________________: a 1776 essay written by Thomas
Paine urging colonists to declare
independence.
12. ________________________________: peace petition sent to King George
by colonial delegates after the battles
of Lexington and Concord.