PATRIOT LEADERS

PAUL REVERE

COLONEL JOHN PARKER

SAM ADAMS

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Continental

• A soldier of the American army during the revolution. It was also useless paper

Continental Congress

• An assembly of representatives from the American colonies which operated legislative body during the revolutionary period

FACSIMILE

• A reproduction of a document book painting or item

MILITIA

• Citizen soldiers who were called out for emergencies to defend their homes and villages. Malicious were first ford New England to guard against Indiana tax minute men were militia

MINUTEMEN

• Colonial militia who have pledged to fight against British at a minutes notice. They fought the British at Lexington and Concorde in April of 1775 to begin the American revolution

MOB

• A undisciplined group of protesters who often take the law into their own hands

PARLIAMENT

• The official governing body of Great Britain made up of the house of lords and the house of commons

PRIVATEER

• Small privately owned merchant ships that were fitted out with weapons to capture British merchant shipping

REBEL

• British slang Term for an American or patriots not loyal to Britain during the war

REDCOATS

• Slang term for British soldiers who were scarlet red uniform jackets

SONS OF LIBERTY

• Secret group of radicals formed by Sam Adams to protest the stamp act they use violence such as tarring and feathering to punish loyalists and to protest British polices

The shot heard around the world

• Famous phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s poem about the first shots of the revolutionary war at Lexington and Concord Massachusetts on April 19, 1775