Cheater 6 vocabulary
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| 1117712036 | King George III | British monarch who reigned during the American Revolution | 1 | |
| 1117712037 | Quartering | Act requiring the colonists to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies | 2 | |
| 1117712038 | Sugar act | Law placing a tax on sugar, Molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies | 3 | |
| 1117712039 | Stamp act | Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid | 4 | |
| 1117712040 | Patrick Henry | Member of Virginia's house of Burgess | 5 | |
| 1117712041 | Sons of Liberty | Secret society formed to oppose British police | 6 | |
| 1117712042 | Speculate | To buy as an investment | 7 | |
| 1117712043 | Boycott | Refusal to buy | 8 | |
| 1117712044 | Proclamation of 1763 | British proclamation that forbade the colonists from setting west of the Appalachian | 9 | |
| 1117712045 | Crispus Attucks | Sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry who died at the Boston massacre | 10 | |
| 1126323880 | Boston massacre | Incident in 1770 in which British troops fried on and killed American colonists | 11 | |
| 1126323881 | Townsend act | acts passed by parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the colonies | 12 | |
| 1130750734 | Write of assistance | Search warrants used to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods | 13 | |
| 1130750735 | Daughter of liberty | Organization of colonial women formed to pretest British police | 14 | |
| 1130750736 | Samuel Adams | Leader of the Boston son of Liberty | 15 | |
| 1130750737 | Committee of correspondence | Organization formed to exchange information about British police and American resistance | 16 | |
| 1130750738 | Boston tea party | Incident in 1773, when colonists protested British polices by boarding British ships and throwing their cargoes of tea overboard | 17 | |
| 1130750739 | Duties | Taxes placed on imported goods | 18 | |
| 1130750740 | John Adams | Lawyer who defensed British soldiers accused of murder in Boston massacre | 19 | |
| 1130750741 | Minutemen | group of armed civilians, trained to be ready to fright at a minute's warning | 20 | |
| 1134809330 | Intolerable | Series of laws, known in Britain as the coercive acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance | 21 | |
| 1134809331 | First continental congress | Meeting of delegates from most of the colonies called in reaction to the intolerable | 22 | |
| 1134809332 | Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement | 23 | |
| 1134809333 | Lexington | First battles of the Revolutionary | 24 | |
| 1134809334 | Loyalists | Americans who supported the British | 25 | |
| 1134809335 | Patriots | Americans who sided with the rebels | 26 | |
| 1134809336 | Militia | A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community | 27 | |
| 1134809337 | Ethan Allen | leader a patriot group of fighters known as the green mountain boys | 28 | |
| 1140218884 | Second Continental Congress | American government during the revolutionary war | 29 | |
| 1140218885 | Continental Army | America's Patriot army during the revolutionary war | 30 | |
| 1140218886 | Thomas Paine | Political radical and the author of common sense | 31 | |
| 1140218887 | Declaration of independence | document that declared American Independence from Britain | 32 |
