Battles
The final major battle that ended with the British surrendering to George Washington?
Yorktown
Secret society formed by Sam Adams?
Sons of Liberty
leader of the Colonial Army
George Washington
This forbid the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
British debt after this war led to the economic policies of taxation.
French-Indian War
Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
unalienable rights (listed in the Declaration of Independence)
Father/Founder of the U.S. Navy
John Paul Jones
Place where the army came together and trained under Washington’s and Lafayette's leadership even though it was freezing and the men were poorly equipped to handle it.
Valley Forge
__supported Great Britain. Felt strong ties to their mother country and did not see a need for Revolution.
Loyalists
Writer who wrote the earliest accounts of the Revolutionary War?
Mercy Otis Warren
Strategy of refusing to purchase certain goods.
boycott
Name some of the taxes passed by the British against the Colonists
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Townshend Act
Sugar Act
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris 1783
African American spy who helped George Washington gain the victory at Yorktown by gaining British secrets?
James Armistead
The first shots fired that started the American Revolution against British rule?
Lexington and Concord
__ supported independence for many reasons. First, they claimed “no taxation without representation.” They saw themselves too far removed from England to be subject to the King and Parliament.
Patriots
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
British soldiers fire into a heckling crowd of colonists
Boston Massacre
Who was the first person killed in the American Revolution (at the Boston Massacre)
Crispus Attacks
The act was a tax on all paper used for printed materials in the colonies. It required that all materials printed in the colonies be printed on paper embossed with an official revenue stamp. The printed materials in question included everything from newspapers, to magazines to legal documents.
Stamp Act
Natural rights that a person is born with?
unalienable rights
Shot heard around the World
Lexington
Had a determination to win, knew the land, but were working with an inexperienced military.
Colonies
Started the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
What is a grievance?
complaint
The English response to the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts (also known as the Coercive Acts)
Economic policy which angered the colonists because England did not allow the colonists to trade with any other countries?
mercantilism
Signed on July 4th 1776
Declaration of Independence
It was a major victory for the colonists, the turning point in the American Revolution and helped convince France to support the Americans?
Saratoga
What were Redcoats?
British soldiers
Author of "Common Sense," a pamphlet that encouraged people to join the Patriots cause?
Thomas Paine
Colonists claim that they had no say about the British taxation policies
Taxation without representation
Part of the Intolerable Acts that said colonists had to house British soldiers? This also was a grievance the colonists listed in the Declaration of Independence.
Quartering Act
The Treaty of Paris meant the British had to recognize the U.S. as a _____
a country independent of Britain (the United States of America)
Which French general contributed to the American Revolution by leading and training American troops?
Marquis de Lafayette