American Revolution Vocabulary Matching

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1 Name: Date: Class: American Revolution Vocabulary Matching Directions: You will need to cut the term out and glue it to the correct definition. This is due at the end of class. War that started due to American s unhappiness and disdain for the English Monarchy Event that occurred when colonists dressed as native Americans and dumped cases of tea into the Boston Harbor A riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Emerson's words read, Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world. Tyranny definition. A slogan of the Revolutionary War and the years before. The colonists were not allowed to choose representatives to parliament in London, which passed the laws under which they were taxed. A form of irregular warfare in which a small group

2 of combatants such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military. Defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. Ratified by the 2nd Continental Congress on July 4th, A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in fathers the idea that all men are created to pursue life, liberty and property. fathers the idea of direct democracy.

3 fathers the idea of three branches of government. The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship. The opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts. The birthplace of our modern government. This city is where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights were drafted and signed. The first president of the United States, and the commanding general of the victorious American army in the Revolutionary War. The best known of the Founding Fathers, he is called the father of his country. A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was the second president, from 1797 to 1801, after George Washington.

4 A printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity. An American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.... As the first Secretary of the Treasury, he was the main author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration. An American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States ( ). A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers; the leader of the Democratic-Republican party. he was principal author of the Declaration of Independence and served as president from 1801 to 1809, between John Adams and James Madison. A member of the Continental Congress. A leader in the drafting of the Constitution, he worked tirelessly for its adoption by the states, contributing several essays to The Federalist Papers. He served as president from 1809 to 1817, after Thomas Jefferson.

5 Shot Heard Around the World Articles of Confederation Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Montesquieu James Madison Rousseau John Adams Boston Massacre Bill of Rights John Locke Philadelphia Boston Tea Party The Constitution Declaration of Independence Alexander Hamilton American Revolution Taxation Without Representation Lexington and Concord Guerilla Warfare Boston John Jay George Washington