British Laws
Tax on all printed documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
The colonial protest against the Tea Act of 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Fighting tactic used by the colonists against the British Army.
What is guerilla warfare?
The American colonists who wanted independence were called this.
What is Patriots?
12 of the 13 colonies were represented at this meeting.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The unfair legal tactic that allowed British agents to search colonists property.
What are Writs of Assistance?
These were the colonial agreements to block British imports.
What are nonimportation agreements?
This is where the British Army surrendered in the final battle of the war.
Where is Yorktown, Va.?
This was the name for American colonists who remained loyal to the King.
What is Loyalists?
These two European nations were responsible for the French and Indian War.
What is France and England?
This was the British response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts?
The angry colonial riot in Boston that turned deadly.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The first shots of the war were fired here.
Where is Lexington?
This man was the hero of the Battle of Saratoga but later became a traitor to the American Army.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This officially recognized the American colonies as free and independent states.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This law stopped Americans from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Organization that kept the colonies aware of British actions by writing to each other.
What are committees of correspondence?
This colonial victory was considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This man was the commander of the entire Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The debt created by this caused the British to begin taxing the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
Laws that taxed tea, glass, paper and silk.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This officially announced our separation with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This major US city fell to the British in 1776 and was occupied by the British for the rest of the war.
What is New York?
This man actually made it to Concord to warn them that the British Army was coming to confiscate their weapons.
Who is Samuel Prescott?
The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is expressed in this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?