Mission 4 Independence

What do the following images have in common?

You say you want a revolution? What is a revolution? What causes a revolution? a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

Customs Duty A tax on imports and exports

Inflation The loss of the value of money

Nonimportation Agreement A pledge by merchants not to buy imported goods from a particular source

Writ of Assistance A search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling

Committee of Correspondence Committee organized in each colony to communicate with and unify the colonies

minutemen Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted they were ready to fight on a minute’s notice

Loyalist American colonists who supported Britain and opposed the War for Independence

Patriot American colonist who supported the War for Independence

Guerilla Warfare A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; used by the colonists.

Letters of Marque Licenses issued by Congress to private ship owners authorizing them to attack British merchant ships

Republic Form of government in which power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote

Emancipation The act or process of freeing enslaved persons

Manumission The voluntary freeing of enslaved persons