British Guys
He became the new Chancellor of the Exchequer and caused another crisis in the colonies
Charles Townsend
This man is credited for starting Sons of Liberty
Sam Adams
Battle of Saratoga
1777
Mercantilism
This act stopped all trade with the colonies
Prohibitory Act
He became the new Hanover King of England in 1760
George III
This man spoke out against the Sugar Act
James Otis
Treaty of Paris
1783
This agreement showed the spiritual decline of New England
Halfway Covenant
This forced the colonists to house the British Soldiers
Quartering Act
This British General surrendered to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga
John Burgoyne
She was an African-American poet
Phillis Wheatly
First Continental Congress
1774
these 3 men who warned of the British advance on Lexington
William Dawes, Samuel Prescott, Paul Revere
These acts laid down the basic laws of trade with the colonies from 1650 to 1696
Navigation acts
This Brit lead troops into Boston
Thomas Gage
This lawyer/author wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies."
John Dickinson
Second Continental Congress
1775
The First and Second Continental Congress met here
Philadelphia
This act was effectively boycotted and soon repealed
Stamp Act
Actually an Irish lad, this man defended the colonial cause in Parliment
Edmund Burke
He was the author of "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
Stamp Act Congress
1765
This was the name of hired German Mercenaries
Hessians
This act cut the tax of raw sugar in half
sugar act