AMERICAN REVOLUTION VOCABULARY #2

CONTINENTAL

• A soldier of the American Army during the Revolution
• It was also the useless paper money issued by Congress to help pay for the war

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

• An assembly of representatives from the American Colonies which operated as the 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. Militia were formed in New England to guard against Indian attacks

MINUTEMEN

• Colonial Militia who had pledged to fight the British “at a minute’s notice”
• They fought the British at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775 to begin the American Revolution

MOB

• An 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 Patriot who was not loyal to Britain during the war

REDCOATS

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

SONS OF LIBERTY

• Secret group of radicals formed by San Adams to protest the Stamp Act
• They used violence such as tarring and feathering to punish Loyalists and to protest British policies

“THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD”

• Famous phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem about the first shot of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775

“ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA”

“WHEN WE ASSUMED THE SOLDIER, WE DID NOT LAY ASIDE THE CITIZEN”

“TURN OUT, TURN OUT! THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING”

“HOLD YOUR FIRE MEN, BUT IF THEY MEAN TO HAVE A WAR, LET IT BEGIN HERE”

“WHAT A GLORIOUS MORNING FOR AMERICA”

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