Vocabulary
The colonists who supported the king
What is the Loyalist/Tories?
The turning point of the war
What is Saratoga?
Required all legal documents to have a Royal Stamp
What is the Stamp Act?
The issue the war was fought over
Required the colonists to house and feed British Soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
The colonists who did not support the king
The Patriots/Whigs?
Where Washington and his troops spent a horrible winter
What is Valley Forge?
Placed a tax on sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act
The two groups that fought in the French and Indian War
Who are the British/Colonist and the French?
The Writ or Assistance allowed this
What is customs officers to search without a warrant?
Used to sway the opinion of colonist to gain support
What is propaganda?
British Troops shot into a crowd of colonists
What is the Boston Massacre
Placed a tax on glass, tea, paper, coffee, metal goods, and liquor
What is the Townshend Act?
The cause of the French and Indian War
What was the Colonists moving West?
The Proclamation Line of 1763 restricted this group of people from crossing the Appalachian Mountians
Who are the colonists
A way of getting things that were unfairly taxed
What is smuggling?
Where the Revolutionary War began
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
Passed to give the British East India Tea Company a monopoly on the tea trade
What is the Tea Act?
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Lexington and Concord were apart of this colony
What is Massachusetts?
A group of patriotic colonists who opposed the British and gathered support
What are the Sons of Liberty?
The British gained this after the French and Indian War
What is all land east of the Mississippi?
Used to restate parliament's authority to pass laws and tax the colonists
What is the Declaratory Act?
The British gained this from the Treaty of Paris (1763)
What is all the lands east of the Mississippi?
The resource that helped Washington defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown
What is the French Nacy?