Word Wall
Word
1. poverty 2. colonists 3. Parliament 4. tax 5. "No taxation without representation" 6. redcoats 7. ammunition 8. Continental Army 9. The Declaration of Independence 10. treaty 11. patriots 12.surrender 13. president |
Definition
1. The state of being poor. 2. People who help create and live in a colony. 3. A group of people who make the laws in a type of government. 4. To require someone to pay an extra amount of money on something. 5. A government does not have the right to tax a group of people without them being present in the government. 6. A British soldier 7. Objects like bullets that are shot from guns. 8. The army led by George Washington and authorized by the Continental Congress. 9. A document that declared the colonies free from British rule and an independent country. 10. An official agreement between two or more countries or groups. 11. People who loves and strongly supports or fights his or her country. 12. To agree to stop fighting because you know you will not win or succeed. 13. The head of our government in our country. |
Context
1. "Thousands of beggars and pickpockets were evidence of poverty run amok. (p.13)" 2. "About 90% of the colonists in America lived out in the country, where new arrivals from Europe were amazed to find farm land, forests, fish, and game as far as the eye could see" (p. 15). 3. "King George and a governing body called Parliament worded together to rule the empire" (p.16). 4. "To raise the money, Parliament passed a Sugar Act and a Stamp Act saying that colonists had to pay taxes to Great Britain for all sorts of imported good" (p.18). 5."No taxation without representation meant that citizens could never be taxed unless their elected representatives voted to pay" (p.18). 6. "Then someone threw a lump of wood at a redcoat and knocked him flat. The enraged troops began firing into the crowd, and five colonists were killed" (p.22). 7. "A spy in Boston warned Gage that colonial troublemakers were stashing big piles of piles ammunition in nearby Concord" (p.28). 8. "George Washington took command of the Continental Army, the colonies' main fighting force, on July 3, 1775, in Cabridge, Massachusetts" (p.34). 9. "The Continental Congress set to work on a document (the Declaration of Independence) that claimed the right of all people to choose their own government" (p.36). 10. "The French greatly admired the American cause and signed a treaty that recognized the United States as a new nation" (p. 46). 11. "The patriots tarred and feathered them anyway, even when they hired substitutes" (p. 48). 12. "When the British sword was at last surrendered, the Revolutionary War was unofficially over" (p.51). 13. "In May 1787, George Washington was unanimously chosen to be president of the Constitutional Convention, whose members were writing the Constitution of the United States" (p. 56). |