People
This future president defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in court.
John Adams
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.
Yorktown
Line that forbade American colonists to move past the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River.
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Supported the efforts to resist unfair British taxation and control.
Patriots
Founding Father that wrote much of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
On Christmas day at night, Washington's soldiers began crossing the Deleware River. The next morning, they suprise attacked the British mercenaries which were Hessians.
Battle of Trenton
On March 5, 1770, a crowd of Boston colonists began taunting British soldiers guarding a customs house. Eventually shots were fired and 5 men died.
Boston Massacre
Delegates at 2nd continental congress made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament
Olive Branch Petition
Americans who supported the British side in the American Revolution.
Loyalists
2nd Continental Congress voted to select him as the Commander of the Continental Army.
George Washington
The battle which was the turning point of the Revolution because after the colonists won this major victory, the French decided to support us with money, troops, ships, etc.
Saratoga
Sons of liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans on December 17 of 1773, boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
The document approved by representatives of the American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence.
Declaration of Independence
militia volunteers who could be ready to fight at a moment's notice during the American Revolution
Minutemen
Promoted the idea of natural law which emphasized individual rights. His idea helped inspire the American Revolution.
John Locke
the first battles of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
Sometimes known as the Coercive Acts, these acts were put in place after the Boston Tea Party. They shut down Boston harbor, suspended the Massachusetts government, allowed British officials to search homes without warrant, & eliminated trial by jury.
Intolerable Acts
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation.
"Common Sense"
Religious movement that swept the colonies in the 1700's
Great Awakening
First African American to die in the American Revolution at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Site of a battle early in the Revolutionary War. This battle contested control of two hills overlooking Boston Harbor. The British captured the hills after the Americans ran-out of ammunition. "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!" Battle implied that Americans could fight the British if they had sufficient supplies.
Bunker Hill
Slogan originating during the 1700s that summarized a primary grievance of the colonists by being taxes without their consent
No taxation without representation
The first section of the Declaration of Independence
Preamble
This movement encouraged the use of science and reason to solve society's problems
Enlightenment