Revolutionary War Vocabulary
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- treaty
- agreement between two or more countries
- committees of corispondence
- groups of colonists who wrote letters and pamphlets to report events in Boston during 1770's
- loyalist
- people who support the king and england
- parliament
- english legislature
- Blockade
- Shutting off a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in our out
- guerilla war-fare
- hit and run tastics; attacking your enemy and then retreating
- mercenary
- hired soldier
- patriot
- people who wanted to be free from the king and england
- petition
- letter signed by many people, asking person of authority to decide in your favor
- writs of assistance
- legal document that gave british port officials the right to check a boats cargo without any reason for the search
- revolution
- overthrowing one government and replacing it with another
- repeal
- to take away a law
- boyonet
- spiked metal piece that fixes on the end of a musket
- militia
- citizen army;train themselves , fight in emergencies
- non importation agreements
- agreement signed by colonists saying they would not import any british goods