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WHBI5 Colonial/Revol
Colonial Times and the Revolution
| Vocabulary | Definition |
|---|---|
| charter | A document giving a person or group official approval to take a certain action. |
| delegate | A representative to the Constitutional Convention. |
| Parliament | The part of the British government in which members make laws for the colonists and the people of Britain. |
| Articles of Confederation | A document adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and approved by the states in 1781. It was the first constitution of the United States. |
| Loyalist | A colonist who supported the British monarch and laws (also known as Tories.) |
| American Revolutionary War | A war fought for the independence of the American colonies from Great Britain. |
| independence | Freedom to govern one’s own. |
| Continental Congress | A meeting of representatives of the British Colonies. |
| Patriot | A colonist who was against British rule. |
| Quartering Act | A law passed by the British Parliament requiring colonists to house British troops. |
| congress | A meeting of representatives who have the authority to make decisions. |
| indentured servant | A person who agreed to work for someone in colonial America for a fixed amount of time in order to pay for his/her ocean voyage. |
| naval | Of or having to do with the navy |
| Battle of Saratoga | A conflict won by the colonists during the Revolutionary War. It is sometimes called the turning point of the war. |
| immigration | The process of leaving one country to live in another. |
| neutral | Not taking sides. |
| slaves | People owned by other people and forcing them to work |
| rebel | A person who opposes those in charge by fighting because of different ideas about what is right. |
| ally | A country that agrees to support another country to help achieve a common goal. |
| The Stamp Act | A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and playing cards. |
| Declaration of Independence | The official document issued by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, explaining why the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain. |
| Second Continental Congress | A meeting in Philadelphia in 1775 of delegates from all 13 colonies which established a colonial army and declared American independence. |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the American Revolution (in a small town near Boston, MA) |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A document from Abraham Lincoln, that proclaimed slaves to be free in the states of the Confederacy. |
| French and Indian War | A conflict between Great Britain and France in North America from 1756 to 1763. British colonists used this name to describe those who were fighting – the French and their Native American allies. |
| Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protests against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston harbor. |
| revolution | A sudden complete change of government. |
| time line | A diagram showing the order in which events took place. |
| Battle of Yorktown | The last major battle of the Revolutionary War took place at this small Virginia town. |
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