Road to War
This war between Britain and France left Britain with a large debt and helped lead to new taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
In 1770, British soldiers killed five colonists in this event in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Known as the "shot heard 'round the world," the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at these two Massachusetts towns.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break away from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This 1765 law taxed printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1773, colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British tea policies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the name of the military force of the colonists (Patriot side).
What is the Continental Army?
This 1776 document announced that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The king of Great Britain during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
Colonists used this phrase to protest taxes imposed by a government in which they had no elected representatives.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
Britain passed these harsh laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party, including closing Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This term refers to colonists who remained loyal to King George III and Great Britain throughout the conflict.
Who are Loyalists?
According to some, all humans are born with these that cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights? (I'll accept unalienable rights)
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third U.S. President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1763 decree by King George III forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
It is rumored the Sons of Liberty dressed as these when throwing tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What are Native Americans?
A name for a very small group of soldiers - each town and colony had their own.
What is a militia?
According to the Declaration of Independence, these three unalienable rights are held by all people.
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the Declaration with ideas about natural rights and government by consent.
Who is John Locke?
This is the word used to house redcoats in one's home.
What is quartering?
Colonists began to do this to protest new taxes, which means bringing items into the colonies illegally without paying a tax on them.
What is smuggling?
At this 1775 battle, British troops fought colonial militia on a hill near Boston, where they lost over 1,000 men.
What is Bunker Hill?
According to Thomas Jefferson (and John Locke), governments must get this group's permission to govern.
Who are the people?
This diplomat and inventor helped negotiate the alliance with France and assisted in drafting the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?