Key Terms
Colonists who supported independence from Britain
Who are Patriots?
War that left Britain in deep debt, leading them to tax the colonies
What is the French and Indian War?
Act giving the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies
What was the Tea Act?
The city in which the Boston Massacre occurred
What is Boston?
The document officially declared the colonies to be free from British rule
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A small army made up of everyday citizens trained to protect their colony in an emergency
What is a militia?
Country lost the most amount of land after the French and Indian War
What is France?
Act requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper goods
What is the Stamp Act?
Defended the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
Wrote Common Sense, urging colonists to separate from Britain
Who is Thomas Paine
Word meaning to cancel or take back a law
What is to repeal?
Committee formed by colonists to spread news and unify themselves against Britain
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
Act saying that British soldiers could live in colonists' homes
What is the Quartering Act?
Event involving colonists throwing tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Two battles that marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
An organized refusal to buy goods from a certain source
What is a boycott?
What are the Navigation Acts
What are the Townshend Acts?
Group disguising themselves as Mohawk Indians in order to throw tea into the harbor
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Created by the Second Continental Congress to defend the colonies
What is the Continental Army?
Information used to influence the opinions of people
What is propaganda?
The main economic system that argued that the colonists existed to benefit Britain
What is mercantilism?
Act meant to punish the Boston Tea Party
What are the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)?
The year in which the Boston Tea Party took place?
What is 1773?
Petition sent to King George III asking for peace and fairness
What is the Olive Branch Petition?