Opposing Sides
Petition in which delegates declared their loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts
Olive Branch Petition
First major battle of the Revolutionary War showing that colonists could fight well.
Battle of Bunker Hill
An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency.
Militia
Incident where colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes.
Boston Tea Party
A band of Vermont soldiers who took Fort Ticonderoga
Green Mountain Boys
The name for the alleged first shot of the American Revolution fired at the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Shot heard 'round the world.
Act that set up a government for Canada and gave religious freedom to French Catholics
Quebec Act
This act let the British East India company bypass colonial tea merchants and sell directly to colonists.
Tea Act
Official army of the colonists commanded by George Washington
German troops for hire to help fight colonists.
Mercenaries
Virginian and future 3rd president of the USA who proposed setting aside a day to mark the shame of the Intolerable Acts
Thomas Jefferson
First meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia in September 1774.
First Continental Congress
Colonists who favored war against Britain
Patriots
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Four harsh laws that pushed colonists towards war.
Intolerable Acts
Shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
Loyalists
Volunteers that trained regularly that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Minutemen
A non-violent refusal to obey laws that one considers unjust.
Civil disobedience
Commanded the Green Mountain Boys when taking Fort Ticonderoga
General Ethan Allen