| A | B |
|---|
| the shutting off of a port by ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out | blockade |
| military force made up of civilians trained as soldiers | militia |
| an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products | boycott |
| citizen soldiers who fought the British at Lexington and Concord | minutemen |
| Those colonists that chose to remain loyal to Britain; did not see taxes as a reason for war | Loyalists |
| Those colonists that were calling for a break with Britain; favored independence | Patriots |
| In order to finance the colonial army, the Second Continental Congress decided to ________ ________. | print money |
| Some ________ feared a revolution would cost them their property. | Loyalists |
| The ________ ________ _______ captured cannons that helped the Continental Army drive the British out of Boston. | Green Mountain Boys |
| The ________ won the Battle of Bunker Hill, but at great cost. | British |
| The British East India Company's monopoly on tea especially harmed colonial ________. | merchants |
| The ________ ________ cut the powers of Massachusetts town meetings. | Intolderable Acts |
| What did the Olive Branch Petition state? | That the colonists remained loyal to the King |
| Why did many enslaved African Americans side with the British? | to win their freedom |
| What was “the shot heard ‘round the world?” | the first shot fired in the American Revolution |
