| A | B |
|---|
| longhouse | A wooden building in an Iroquois village that housed many families |
| sachem | A council member of the Iroquois Confederacy |
| Iroquois Confederacy | A political union of 6 Native American groups |
| patriots | A colonist who was opposed to British rule |
| Boston Massacre | A protest in 1770 against British rule in which 5 American Patriots were killed |
| minutemen | Volunteer colonial soldiers |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who warned the colonists of the advance of British soldiers |
| American Revolution | War fought by the American colonies to end British rule |
| Crispus Attucks | Patriot & former slave who was killed in the Boston Massacre |
| George Washington | Commander of the colonial army in the American Revolution |
| sweatshop | dark, airless factories where immigrants worked |
| tenement | poorly built apartment buildings |
| Ellis Island | welcomed immigrants to the US |
| megalopolis | Boswash |
| metropolitan area | New York City & its suburbs |
| urban | “of the city” |
| suburb | community just outside a city |
| rural | “of the countryside” |
| commute | to travel back & forth each day |
| population | Number of people who live in an area |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | beginning of the American Revolution |
