1770s
Confrontation between colonies and British soldiers, which ended in the 5 people getting shot
Boston Massacre
The British government is called
Parliament
Author of the book, Common Sense
Thomas Paine
These people lived by the harbor and are merchants on behalf of the British government
Loyalist
Men dressed as Native Americans snuck on a boat at the harbor to dump tea into the ocean as a form of protest.
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonial leaders met to discuss laws and rights they were going to make against British injustice.
This man convinced Thomas Paine to leave Britain to live in the colonies.
Benjamin Franklin
British made these laws as punishment to the colonist for the Boston Tea Party
Coercive/ Intolerable Act
Tax on paper passed by parliament in 1764 to pay French and Indian War debt.
Stamp Act
This law prevented colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains in Native American territory.
Proclamation of 1763
People who were against the unity of British and colonist. These people were pushing for independence.
Patriots
During the Boston Tea Party the colonist only dumped tea and didn't touch or take anything else.
True or False
True
the colonies established their own governing bodies to make the rules and laws for themselves.
Self Government
This form of government where the people are empowered to speak up
Democracy
This was the British Captain who commanded the guards to fire shots.
Captain Thomas Preston
Most of the colonist living in America were loyalist
True or False
False
American colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers.
Quartering Act
When this law was passed it force the French to leave North American. They lost control of most of the North America territories
Treaty of Paris 1763
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence and served as one of the founding fathers of the USA.
Thomas Jefferson
The American Revolution was the war that created the United States of America
True or False
TRUE