Acts
This act placed a tax on sugar and molasses
The Sugar Act
When the colonists protested the Tea Act by boarding British ships and dumping tea into Boston Harbor
The Boston Tea Party
Who won the American Revolution
It was an American Victory
(the colonists won)
What the colonists who supported independence were called
Patriots
This act placed a tax on printeed items like newspapers, legal documents and licenses
The Stamp Act
British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing 5 colonists
The Boston Massacre
The two towns that marked the beginning of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
What the colonists who wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain were called
Loyalists
These were passed to control colonial trade
The Navigation Acts
Term for when you decide not to buy something from a certain place (Some people are doing this now with Amazon and Target)
boycott
He wrote a pamplet that persuaded colonists to declare independence from Great Britain
Thomas Paine
Idea that the colonists shouldn't be taxed by a government in which they had no elected representatives
No taxation without representation
This required colonists to house and feed British soldiers
The Quartering Act
Person colonists may have written letters to because they were upset with his rules
The King or King George
Common Sense
The idea that colonies existed to make the mother country richer and more powerful
Mercantilism
This taxed imported goods like paint, glass, paper and tea.
The Townshend Acts
A document that stated all the reason the colonists were upset with England
The Declaration of Independence
He was chosen to lead the Continental Army
George Washington
The name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris