Causes
This law taxed printed material like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This document lists grievances against King George III and declares independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
April 1775 skirmishes that started the Revolutionary War.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Colonists who supported independence from Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
Colonists used this economic protest by refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
Wrote Common Sense, encouraging independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The term Jefferson used to describe rights that cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
1773 protest where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
Who were the Loyalists (Tories)?
What was one direct result of the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts).
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Colonists used these committees to coordinate resistance across the colonies.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
Winter encampment where Washington’s army endured hardship but trained (1777–78).
What is Valley Forge?
Year the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is 1776?
The slogan that expressed colonists’ anger at being taxed without representation.
Taxation without representation.
French ally who supported Washington and the Continental Army.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This pamphlet convinced many colonists that independence was necessary.
What is Common Sense?
1781 battle that resulted in Cornwallis’s surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Word for a formal complaint, like those listed in the Declaration.
What is a grievance?
Britain’s heavy debt after this war led to new taxes on the colonies.
The French and Indian War.
Enslaved African American who served as a Patriot spy at Yorktown.
Who is James Armistead (Lafayette)?
Government principle that power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty (consent of the governed)?
Agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Year Washington won at Yorktown, leading to the end of the war.
What is 1781?