Vocab
These people revolted against the crown
What is a Patriot
This took place in Philadelphia to discuss Independence.
What is the First continental Congress?
Placed Taxes on Sugar and Molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
This man was from Georgia and Signed the Declaration of Independence.
These people remained loyal to England.
What is a Loyalist.
The event on March 5, 1770 that helped spark the revolution.
What was the Boston Massacre?
Taxes placed on stamps, cards, dice, etc.
What was the Stamp Act?
These 2 men were also Georgia and Signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is George Walton, and Button Gwinnett?
When you surround a city or fort to cut off their supplies.
What is a Siege
The reaction to the Tea Act
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This Act was put in place in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What was the Intolerable Act?
This man wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Georgia chapter of the sons of Liberty.
What is the Liberty Boys
The shot heard around the world.
What was the Battle of Lexington?
This Act required colonists to buy tea from the British East India Company.
What was the Tea Act?
This was a slave who was a hero in Georgia and earned his Freedom
Who is Austin Dabney?
Large piece of paper printed on one side
What is a Broadside
This event occurred from September to October 1779 in attempt to capture a town in Georgia.
What was the Siege of Savannah?
This act required colonists to house and feed Soldiers
What was the Quartering Act?
This women was a spy for the rebels and captured 6 soldiers as they attempted to force her to feed them.
Who is Nancy Hart?