Vocabulary Words 1
Key Persons
Key Events
Cause and Effect
100
A war against your own government.
What is revolution?
100
He rode from farm to farm to tell the colonists that the British are coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
100
The British soldiers shot the colonist protesters killing 5 people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
The British put a tax on tea.
What is the cause of the Boston Tea Party?
200
To be free from control
What is Independence
200
They lived in America and they were unhappy with Britain.
What is colonists?
200
Britain put a tax on tea so the colonists protested.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The colonists threw the tea on the water.
What is the effect of the Boston Tea Party?
300
The highest lawmaking group in Britain
What is the Parliament?
300
The colonists farmers and businessmen who were ready to fight in a minute.
What is minutemen?
300
The second meeting of the colonist leaders where they decided to separate from British rule.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
300
The redcoats wanted to take the weapons of the colonists.
What is the cause of the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
400
The power over people, or things or to keep them down
What is Control?
400
The British troops.
What is redcoats?
400
The meeting where the colonists agreed that if Britain will use force, they will fight back.
What is the First Continental Congress?
400
Eleven colonists were hurt and five were killed.
What is the effect of The Boston Massacre?
500
To have someone in government speak for you
What is Representation?
500
He led the team who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The fight between the redcoats and the minutemen that started the revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
500
By 1770, there were more taxes.
What is the cause of The Boston Massacre?
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