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A pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain.
Common Sense Passage
King of Great Britain and Ireland; his issuance of the intolerable acts and Refusal to address colonial concerns helped trigger the American Revolution.
King George III
a series of laws enacted by parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America
Townshend acts
temporary rule by military rather than civil authority
martial law
The site in Pennsylvania where the Continental Army spent the winter of 1777-1778 under extremely harsh conditions
Valley Forge
A document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a conciliation between the Colonies and Britain.
Olive Branch Petition
French Statesman and Officer who viewed the American Revolution as important to the world; he helped finance the Revolution and served as major general.
Marquis de Lafayette
a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which 5 of the colonists were killed
Boston Massacre
American statesman; he was a member of two Continental Congresses, the chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, as well as the Declaration's main author, and one of its signers
Thomas Jefferson
An important battle site of the American Revolution where American forces killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and 6 hession canons in a surprise attack
Trenton
A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America.
Stamp Act
The selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices
Profiteering
One of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties
Committees of Correspondence
The document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain
Declaration of Independence
An increase in prices or a decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
inflation
The site of an important battle in New York during the American Revolution that resulted in a major defeat of British troops and marked the Patriots' greatest victory up to that point in war.
Saratoga
Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War pledged to be ready to fight at minute's notice.
Minutemen
The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
colonists who supported American Independence from Britain
Patriots
The site where the British Army formally surrendered on October 19, 1781, ending the American Revolution
Yorktown
The belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civil rights.
Egalitarianism
American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he also signed the Declaration of Independence
Samuel Adams
A series of Laws enacted by parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution
Loyalists
The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation.
Treaty of Paris