American Revolution Vocabulary

By susanpost11, Dec 2006

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repeal	undo a law
propoganda	information slanted to get a certain reaction, usually exaggerated.
colony	settlement established by a mother country for profit
minutemen	citizen soldier, volunteer fighter. Called minutemen because they could be ready to fight in a "minute"
militia	volunteer army
ambush	surprise attack
patriot	colonist who supports American independence
loyalist	colonist who stays loyal to England
Colonial era	Spanned 7 generations, from 1607 to 1775 - approimately 175 years.
Committee of Correspondance	leaders of each colony who wrote to each other about what was happening in their colony and how to resist the british
treaty	a formal agreement between two colonies
Continental Army	full time patriot army
civil disobediance	intentional disopediance of the law in order to protest the injustice or unfairness of a law or government practice
House of Burgesses	colonial government of Virginia and the first democratic representative government of North America
Act	Law

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