Famous Figures
This famous figure was a popular and respected Patriot who wanted independence. He tried to persuade the British government to treat the colonies fairly.
Benjamin Franklin
Boycotted
to protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service
An outcome of this event caused the British to go deeply into debt.
French and Indian War
Why did colonists ring bells and light bonfires after the Declaration of Independence?
Overthrowing one government and replacing it with another is called
a revolution
He sided with the Patriots and died while confronting British soldiers during the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
Taxation Without Representation
being required to pay taxes by a government without having a representative in the government
How did colonists react to the Stamp Act?
They protested until it was repealed
Name three types of people who were typically Loyalists and Patriots.
Loyalists: appointed governors, religious leaders, rich landowners.
Patriots:Lawyers, Boston merchants, farmers.
Why was it hard for the British to replace troops and supplies?
Their homeland was far away
She was known as a patriot with a pen.
Mercy Ottis Warren
Rich landowners, governors, and religious leaders were often... (what type of colonists?)
Loyalists
Colonists boycotted tea and paper to...
protest taxes on those items
True or false: This was included in the Declaration of Independence:
"Great Britain has ruled the colonists unfairly"
True
True or False: One of the outcomes of the Treaty of Paris was that the army freed the people it enslaved.
False
A fierce patriot who wrote newspaper articles and in 1765, he helped to organize a group called the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
Who did British troops fight against at the beginning of the war? They were ready to fight at any minute.
colonial militias and Minutemen
Which act or event did NOT feed the anger that led to the Boston Massacre?
The Boston Tea Party
What was the most important task facing the Second Continental Congress?
organize the colonies for war
The booklet "Common Sense" written by Patrick Henry persuaded colonists to want what?
independence
The main writer of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The part of the British government that passed acts.
Parliament
The main purpose of the Proclamation of 1763
to protect colonists
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from how many colonies?
only 12 colonies
Thousands of Native Americans fought for Great Britain. They did this because the British...
restricted colonization of their land (colonists were not allowed to take their land)