Battles
"The shot heard round the world"
Battle of Lexington and Concord
This law taxed almost all printed materials.
Stamp Act
The "Breakup Letter" that the colonists wrote to Britian.
The Declaration of Independence
His most famous work is Common Sense (1776) which was an early call for the independence of the American colonies from Britain.
Thomas Paine
An important official announcement that is usually made to the public.
Proclamation
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution.
Battle of Yorktown
This act lower the tax on molassas but also allowed officers to seize goods from accused smugglers without going to court.
Sugar Act
Unjust uses of power.
Usurpations
This man left his French homeland to aid the colonials in their fight for freedom.
Marquis de Lafayette
an American Revolution militiaman who agreed to be ready for military duty “at a minute's warning.”
Minuteman
Geneeral Washington and his troups would cross the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776, and surprise the British in this battle.
Battle of Trenton
This act gave the Briitish East India Company nearly total control of the market for tea in the colonies.
Tea Act
Rightness
Rectitude
an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain
Richard Henry Lee
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause: information used to influence opinion.
Propaganda
The British and French fought this WAR for control of the lands between their North American territories.
French and Indian War
This act put a tax on imported commidities, goods that people buy an sell.
Townshend Act
Asked formally for a correction of wrongs.
Petitioned for Redress
An American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
A colonist who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution.
Loyalist
This battle convinced France to aid the Patriots in the revolution.
Battle of Saratoga
These were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
The Coercive Acts of 1774, also known as the Intolerable Acts
Originating from the same ancestor.
Consanguinity
She disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army.
Deborah Sampson
This refers to the approximately 30,000 German troops hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution.
Hessians