Loyalist
Colonists who stayed loyal to Britain and King George III during the American Revolution.
Who are Loyalists?
A tax on a popular drink in the American Colonies.
The tea tax
Patriots dumped tea from a ship in the Boston Harbor in to protest the Tea Tax
The Boston Tea Party
The King of Great Britain during the American Revolution.
Who is King George the 3rd
The name of people who wanted freedom and independence from Great Britain.
Patriots
What did most Loyalists think that colonists should do when taxed by Great Britain.
Pay taxes to Britain.
A tax on paper goods
The stamp act
The American Revoluntion started in this year.
1775
The name of a famous Patriot General during the American revolution and the first president of the United States
George Washington
What was the name of the group of patriots who helped organize the Boston Tea Party?
The Sons of Liberty
These people became Loyalists in order to gain freedom after being taken against their will and made to work in the colonies.
Some Slaves in the colonies.
What is it called when colonists refused to buy things (goods) that Great Britain taxed?
boycot
The first shots fired during the American Revolution
Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts
This famous person went to France to convince them to Ally (help) the American Patriots win the war against Great Britain
Benjamin Franklin
Patriots protested this event in which several people were killed by British soldiers in Boston.
The Boston Massacre.
The Loyalist son of one of the Founders who was the colonial governor of New Jersey and left to live in Great Britain.
William Franklin
This document was signed by many of the founding fathers and declared that the colonies did not want to be part of Great Britain any more.
The Declaration of Independence
Great Britain sent people to live in the original colonies. How many colonies were there?
13
He helped write most of the Declation of Independence and was the 3rd president of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
In 1774, representatives of all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to form this Patriot government.
First Continental Congress
Some of these people becam Loyalists because they wanted colonists to stop stealing their land.
Native Americans
Why did Great Britain begin taxing the colonists after leaving them to govern themselves for many years?
To pay money they owed (debt) the French and Indian War.
Why did the the American Revolution begin?
People living in the 13 American colonies wanted to fight for thier rights!
How were friends and families divided by the American Revolution.
Some colonists (Patriots) wanted to set up their own government, and others wanted to remain a part of Great Britain (Loyalists).
These 1774 laws closed the port of Boston, limited Massachusetts’ self-government, and allowed British troops to be housed in private homes. Punishment for the Patriots after the Boston Tea Party.
The Intolerable Acts