Causes of Conflict
This war between France and Britain (and their Native allies) helped spark tensions that led to the Revolution.
French and Indian War
This tax required colonists to buy a stamp for newspapers, documents, and playing cards.
Stamp Act
Colonists who supported the King were called this.
Loyalists
The Declaration’s main author.
Thomas Jefferson
The first battles of the Revolutionary War.
Lexington and Concord
What was the name of the territory the British and the French fought over in the French and Indian War?
Ohio River territory
These laws punished Boston after the Tea Party and were known by colonists as the “Intolerable Acts.”
Coercive Acts
What was the colonist's name for the "Incident on King Street" (British name for this event). Where 5 were killed, and 6 colonists were wounded.
Boston Massacre
What was the first part (of four) of the Declaration of Independence. Often thought of as the introduction.
The Preamble
France agreed to help the Americans after this battle.
Battle of Saratoga
After the French & Indian War, Britain passed this law forbidding colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
Quartering Act
Name for colonists who supported independence.
Patriots
The list of _________ is a list of complaints about King George III.
Grievances
Guerilla Warfare
What was the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian war?
The Treaty of Paris (1763)
This event in 1773 involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation.
Boston Tea Party
This pamphlet, written in 1776, convinced many colonists that independence was necessary.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Declaration says the government gets their power from it's ___________?
The people (Consent of the Governed)
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
Battle of Yorktown
What Native American tribe was a largest ally of the British in the French and Indian War?
Iroquois Confederacy
This 1754 meeting, led in part by Benjamin Franklin, proposed a plan for colonial unity.
Albany Congress / Albany Plan of Union
This African and Native American man is often remembered as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
When was the Declaration of Independence officially adopted? (date and year)
July 4th, 1776
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War. Established the U.S. borders westward to the Mississippi River.
Treaty of Paris (1783)