Vocabulary
to refuse to buy something
What is boycott?
Women who made goods
Daughters of Liberty
People who were loyal to Great Britain
Loyalists
Placed a tax on all paper goods
Stamp Act
Why did Great Britain tax the colonists?
to pay the debt from the French and Indian War
to cancel
What is to repeal?
the group who organized protests
Sons of Liberty
People who wanted freedom from Great Britain
Patriots
Placed a tax on all British imports
Townshend Act
Name one wy women helped in the war
fought, spies, molly pitchers, nurses
tax
What is tariff?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Ruler of Great Britain
King George III
Laws passed to punish the colonists
Intolerable Acts
Name 2 countries that helped the colonists fight
Spain and France
money owed
What is debt?
Largest signature on the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
Warned colonists that the British were on the move
Paul Revere
The killing of 5 colonists
Boston Massacre
How colonists responded to Stamp Act
protested, formed the Sons of Liberty
The crime of fighting against your own country
What is treason?
Continental army leader who led troops across the Delaware River
George Washington
The British commander that was captured, ending the Revolutionary War
Cornwallis
the document that ended the war
Treaty of Paris
How the colonists responded to the Townshend Act
Boycott, Daughters of Liberty were formed