Vocabulary Terms
The power or right to rule, make laws, make decisions, or give orders
What is Legal Authority
different parts people played during the war
what is called varied roles
Inspired patriots from other colonies when he spoke out against taxation without representation by saying “give me liberty or give me death”
Who is Patrick Henry
What did the colonist and Parliament disagree about?
What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?
What is the Battle at Yorktown.
An extra amount of money paid on items we buy that goes to the government
What is a tax
people who were loyal to the king
Who is a Loyalist
Provided military leadership by serving as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington
What did Parliament believe on how the colonist should be governed?
What is Parliament believed it had legal authority in the colonies.
Who won the battle? Who surrendered?
Who is the American colonist and the British army surrendered.
Not having a KING!
What is self government
People who fought for American and independence from Great Britain
Who are Patriots
Provided political leadership by expressing the reasons for colonial independence from Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
How did the colonist believe they should be governed?
What is the colonists believed their local assemblies had legal authority.
What year did the battle end?
What is the year of 1781
To give up and lose (a game, argument, battle, or war)
what is to surrender.
These people took on more responsibility during the war.
Who are women
An enslaved African American from Virginia who served as a spy in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He successfully requested his freedom after the war with the support of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Who is James Lafayette
What did Parliament believe about taxes?
What is Parliament believed it had the right to tax the colonies.
What did the battle led to?
What is the end of the American Revolution.
to have freedom
what is independance
Some fought for Great Britain because they were promised freedom, others "free men" fought with the Americans .
Who are African American.
a French nobleman, volunteered his service to the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The King of France provided French troops, ships, and money. The Marquis de Lafayette contributed to the victory at Yorktown.
Who is The Marquis de Lafayette
How did the colonist feel about taxes?
What is the colonists believed they should not be taxed because they had no representation in Parliament.
What treaty was signed to end the war?
What is the Treaty of Paris.