Battles
What battle is known as the "shot heard around the world"
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Britain's first direct tax on American colonies, requiring stamps on all legal papers, newspapers, and playing cards to raise revenue for defense, sparking widespread protest under the banner of "taxation without representation,"
The Stamp Act
Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain. "No taxation....
What is "WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
A fighting style that uses surprise attacks, ambushes, and quick hit-and-run movements instead of large open battles.
guerilla warfare
Laws passed by Britain to control colonial trade.
The Navigation Acts
He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON
A short-lived administrative union created by King James II to consolidate British colonies—from Maine to New Jersey—under a single, centralized authority, bypassing local assemblies
The Dominion of New England
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight ride warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord.
Who is PAUL REVERE
Attacking the side of an enemy’s formation, where they are weaker and less protected.
flanking
It was someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to England.
What is a LOYALIST
Why is Saratoga known as the "turning point of the war"?
We gained support from France and it a raised morale
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
What is salutary neglect?
The mother country leaves its colony alone to as long as they are sending resources to the "mother country."
A small, quick fight between smaller groups of soldiers before or during a larger battle.
Skirmish
This document officially ended the American Revolution as an agreement of peace.
What is the TREATY OF PARIS
How did the Revolutionary war end?
When Britain surrendered to the colonists at the Battle of Yorktown
Dressed as Native Americans, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
What is Mercantilism
Where the "mother country" takes natural and other resources from its colonies
When a row of soldiers fires their guns at the same time on command
Volley Fire
Colonists saw it as a threat to Protestantism and their western land claims.
The Quebec Act
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
What is the BOSTON MASSACRE
A punitive British law, part of the Intolerable Acts, that severely curtailed self-governance in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by revoking its charter, restricting town meetings, and placing government officials under direct royal control, intended to punish Boston after the Tea Party and tighten British authority before the Revolution
The Massachusetts Government Act
This was the name of Colonial soldiers who would be ready to resist British attack “in a minute"
Minutemen
a part time army made up of men who have different jobs
militia
Which battle was an important win for the Patriots and helped turn the war around?
Battle of Saratoga