American Revolution Vocabulary by

American Revolution

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Definition: –the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775–83, by which the colonies won their independence.

Question: What cause this war?

Picture Source: H. (1883). Engraving depicting the burning of the Gaspee. [Digital image].

Parliament

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Definition: A lawmaking group in the government of Great Britain.

Question: What types of laws did they make?

Picture Source: [ Session Hall of Parliament of Finland]. (2012, October 23).

Minutemen

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Definition: A civilian that was ready to fight.

Question: What gave these people their name?
Picture Source: [Photograph of "The Minute Man,"]. (1875).

Repeal

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Definition: To cancel an act or law.
Question: What is an example of a repeal?

Picture Source: [Prohibition repealed newspaper]. (1919).

Boycott

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Definition: The act of refusing to buy an item to protest or force acceptance.

Question: In what ways could this action help the ones who choose to boycott?

Picture Source: Hogg, D. (2007, May 5). [Protestors outside a KFC].

Sugar Act

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Definition: 1764 act putting a tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine without the consent of the colonists.

Question: What kinds of problems could this action cause?

Picture source:[Sugar act 1764]. (1764).

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Definition: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).

Question: What was the result of the American Revolutionary war? What did the result cause?

Picture source: Godefroy, F. (1775). [A stylized engraving that inaccurately depicts the Battle of Lexington, ].

“No Taxation without Representation”

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Definition: A phrase used by American colonists in response to the British Parliament and the sugar act.

Question: What made people use this saying?

Picture source: Krokodyl. (2008, November). [US Registration plate as seen in 2008 in Washington D.C.].

Proclamation Act

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Definition: issued October 7, 1763, King George III forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

Question: What was King George III's reason for this act?

Picture source: Map of territorial growth 1775. 2009.

Propaganda

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Definition: Ideas or information spread in order to help or harm a cause.

Question: in what ways could propaganda harm or help a cause?

Picture source: "Pritchard Morgan Will be Proud to have the Votes [Digital image]. (1900s).

Stamp Act

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Definition: A law made by Great Britain making people pay a tax for every printed product they bought in order to cover the cost of the war between Great Britain and France.

Question: Why was it called the stamp act?

Picture Source: British Parliament (1865). Newspaper posting of Stamp Act [Digital image].

The Boston Tea Party

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Definition: Duse to the tax on tea, American colonists disguised as Mohawk Native Americans and boarded three British ships and dumped crates of British tea into the Boston harbor.

Question: Why did Great Britain put a tax on tea in the first place?
Picture source: Currier, N. ( 1846). "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor [Digital image].

The Intolerable Acts

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Definition: The British Government passed the Intolerable acts as a punishment to the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
Question: What was a result of these acts
Picture source: [The able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught]. (1774).

The Boston Massacre

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Definition: An event that occurred on March 5th, 1770, in which 5 American Patriots were killed by several British Redcoats. The Redcoats fired into a crowd of people who didn’t have any guns in the streets of Boston. Crispus Attucks, an African American and Native American, is considered by many the first person to die for America’s freedom.

QUESTION: WHY did the Redcoats fire into the crowd of people if the people in the crowd didn’t have any guns?

Picture source:
Revere, Paul. The Bloody Massacre. 1770. Engraving. Boston.