AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Propaganda

Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre was used as ________ to shape public opinion and anger colonists against the British.

Revenue

Great Britain needed to collect a massive amount of ________ from the colonies just to pay off its debts from the French and Indian War.

Resolution

The First Continental Congress passed a bold ________ declaring that the Coercive Acts were illegal and completely violated their rights.

Repeal

When British merchants lost too much money because of the colonial boycotts, they pressured Parliament to ________ the Stamp Act.

Petition

In a desperate final attempt to secure peace, the colonists drafted a formal ________ and sent it to King George III, begging him to fix the unfair laws.

Boycott

Angry about the tax on everyday items, colonial merchants organized a massive ________, refusing to buy any British goods until the laws were changed.

Milita

When the British army marched toward Concord, the local townspeople grabbed their hunting rifles and assembled as a ________ to protect their homes.

Parliament

The American colonists were furious that ________, the lawmaking body located thousands of miles away in London, passed taxes without giving the colonies any representation.

Preamble

Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous ________ of the Declaration of Independence to state the basic human rights that justified breaking away from the king.

Minutemen

At the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the ________ were the very first to face the British because they were trained to assemble instantly.

Neutral

Many colonists chose to stay ________ during the Revolution because they didn't want to lose their property or get dragged into a bloody war.

Smuggling

To avoid paying the high duties on molasses, colonial shippers turned to ________, secretly bringing goods into the ports under the noses of British customs officials.

Import

Because the colonies did not have many manufacturing factories, they had to ________ almost all of their manufactured goods directly from Great Britain.

Quarter

Under the hated Quartering Act, colonists were legally forced to ________ British Redcoats by giving them a place to sleep and food to eat.

Committee of correspondence

If a colony wanted to know what British troops were doing in another colony, they relied on the ________ to write letters and pass the information along.