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Ch 6 & 7 SS Vocab
French and Indian War and the fight for independence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Guerilla Warfare | Type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy, usually behind the battle lines |
| Mercenaries | Hired foreign soldiers |
| unalienable rights | Basic human rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| siege | military blockade of a city or fort |
| minutemen | American colonial militia members who were supposed to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice |
| propaganda | Stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| repeal | to abolish |
| boycott | to refuse to buy certain goods; method often used in protest movements |
| casualties | People who are killed, wounded, or captured, or missing in a war |
| militia | an army made up of civilians serving temporarily as soldiers |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | officially ending the French and Indian War, GB, FR, and SP |
| Sugar Act | law that set taxes on molasses and sugar imported by colonists |
| Samuel Adams | Boston leader, believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their consent and that allowing those kind of taxes would be dangerous |
| Committees of Correspondence | partially founded by S. Adams, group spreading awareness and ideas on how to challenge British laws |
| Stamp Act | law that set taxes on stamps or seals that had to be on any paper item, legal document, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets and playing cards that colonists buy and denying them the trial by jury |
| Patrick Henry | leader from VA, presented resolutions about how the Stamp Act violated rights of the colonists as British citizens |
| Townshend Acts | law that set taxes on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea that colonists buy |
| Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770 British soldiers open fired on a mob of colonists throwing snowballs killing several of them, they were charged with murder, but found not guilty because of self- defense |
| Intolerable Acts | to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party, officially called the Coercive Acts, closed Boston Harbor, cancelled the MA charter, and forced colonists to house the British soldiers who were staying in MA |
| 1st Continental Congress | September 1774, met in Philadelphia with 56 colonial delegates to debate the best way to deal to respond to the crisis taking place in Boston |
| Red Coats | British soldiers in bright red uniforms which allowed colonists to see them easily from far away |
| 2nd Continental Congress | May 1775 representatives from 12 of the colonies met in Philadelphia to decide how to react to the fighting—they decided not to break away from GB, but to form their own Continental Army |
| Continental Army | lead by George Washington of VA, army of colonial men joined together without much money or supplies to defend themselves from the British even before independence was declared |
| George Washington | first general of the Continental Army |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine filled with arguments for breaking away from GB, it was written in style that a common person could understand and it helped change the viewpoint of many colonists |
| Thomas Paine | Patriot from PA who wrote the pamphlet ‘Common Sense’ in 1776 |
| Thomas Jefferson | member of the writing committee declaring independence, main author of the documents |
| Declaration of Independence | document written to declare the breaking of the colonies from GB, with three points: men have certain unalienable rights; King George violated them; and the colonies had the right to break away |
| Patriots | colonists who chose to fight for independence |
| Loyalists | those who remained loyal to GB, also known as Tories |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | peace meeting in FR to end the war after colonists captured the British Army at Yorktown, gave the United States the right to be independent, trade with other nations freely and move where they would like |
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