Colonial Times
The southern colonies made these people farm on their plantations
slaves
The actual term for Britain's system that made them more powerful (Starts with an M)
Mercantilism
These acts shut down the port of Boston, limited town meetings, and established a new quartering act
Intolerable Acts
At the start of the Revolutionary War, the biggest advantage the colonists had:
They were defending their own land
Final battle of the Revolution
Yorktown
This group of colonies had a short growing season, rocky soil, lots of trade, built ships, and fished. (New England, Middle, or Southern?)
New England Colonies
One of the first acts by Britain that told the Colonists they had to send them raw materials, and told them they couldn't manufacture
Navigation Acts
Sam Adams created this group to protest British policies
Sons of Liberty/Daughters of Liberty
First battle of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
Tough part of the revolution that wasn't a battle, but troops were stuck here for a terrible winter
Winter at Valley Forge
The southern colonies grew and traded A LOT of this cash crop
Tobacco
What did the British start doing to the colonists after the French and Indian War?
Taxing
These allowed British officials to go into colonists homes without their consent
Writ of Assistance/Quartering Act
Leader of the colonists military
George Washington
Deadly outbreak of this illness during the Winter at Valley Forge
Smallpox
The first attempt at creating unity among the colonists (Hint: It was proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the start of the French and Indian War)
Albany Plan of Union
After the French and Indian War, England established this imaginary line stopping the colonists from moving west
Proclamation Line of 1763
After Britain lowered the tax on tea and stopped the colonists from producing their own tea, the colonists responded with:
The Boston Tea Party
Type of warfare the colonists used in the Revolution where they ambushed the British
Guerrilla Warfare
After the battle of Saratoga, this country joined in to help fight against the British
France
The three-legged trade route that helped England get all the natural resources from the colonies
Triangle Trade
The name of the government in England that was trying to tax the colonists
Parliament
The event that left 5 colonists dead on March 5th, 1770
Boston Massacre
Turning Point of the American Revolution
Saratoga
Treaty that officially ended The American Revolution
Treaty of Paris, 1783