Acts
In 1764, the colonist did not think this tax was so sweet of the King and they cried, "No taxation without representation."
What is The Sugar Act
British soldiers fired into a crowd killing 5 colonists, so the lesson here is not to throw snowballs at soldiers holding rifles
What is the Boston Massacre
Washington and his soldiers crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night and gave the Hessian's a not so nice Christmas present
What is Trenton
The law making body of Great Britain
What is the Parliament
The document was a clear indication that the colonies wanted to break up with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
This Act was to help bail out the British East India Company which challenged the Colonial merchants.
What is the Tea Act
King George III banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
This battle convinced France that the United States had a chance to win the war; thus they decided to ally with them
What is Saratoga
a religious revival to call the colonist closer to god
What is the Great Awakening
Thomas Pain's famous pamphlet declared that the colonists needed to think deeply about their relationship with the king and not be stupid.
What is Common Sense
The King imposed this act on paper goods to help pay for the cost of troops in America
What is the Stamp Act
This is how a group of Bostonian's named the Sons of Liberty responded to the Tea Act
What is the Boston Tea Party
French warships helped Washington to win this decisive battle that brought an end to the war
What is Yorktown
Delegates of the 13 colonies which came together to find a peaceful solution to the conflicts with Great Britain and later drafted the Declaration of Independence
What is the Continental Congress
In this document, Great Britain agreed to recognize the United States as an independent nation, give up claims to land between the Atlantic Coast and the Mississippi, and the United States agreed to return all rights and property taken from Loyalists during the war.
What is the Peace Treaty of Paris
With this tax, Britain wanted to show that it could still tax colonies, so it put a tax on items like glass, lead and paint
What is the Townshend Acts
"The shot heard 'round the world"
What is the battels of Lexington and Concord
In this battle, the colonist held the high ground until they ran out of ammunition.
What is Bunker Hill
a group of non-professional soldiers assembled by the separate colonies to defend themselves
What is militia
This was a plea to King George III in hope that the colonists and Great Britain could come to a peaceful agreement and prevent further bloodshed
What is the Olive Branch Petition
This act was a punishment for the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts
The result of this event, in which Washington was a Virginian militia officer, was a peace treaty signed by Great Britain and France in 1763 which France ceded or gave its claim of land in Canada.
What is the French and Indian War
Challenge Question!!!!
This battle in South Carolina became the biggest American defeat in the war, and the south became the focus of fighting. The town was previously known as Charles Town after King Charles II
What is Charleston
an idea that colonies are set up to extract natural resources from that area and brought back to the colony's mother country to be produced and sold to increase the wealth of that country
mercantilism
This 1215 document which nobles forced King John to sign limited the power of the Kings
What is the Magna Carta