American Revolution Terms/Vocab
It is the name for someone in the colonies who supported the American Revolution.
What is a PATRIOT
This law required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the QUARTERING ACT
The first battle of the American Revolution
What is Lexington & Concord?
He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON
Document written by Thomas Jefferson in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
What is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
This document officially ended the American Revolution as an agreement of peace.
What is the TREATY OF PARIS
The strategy of refusing to purchase goods in the hopes of weakening a group
What is a boycott
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
What is the BOSTON MASSACRE
After this victory, France was convinced the colonists could win and joined the war
What is SARATOGA
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
The Declaration said all people have the right to these three things
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What was Common Sense?
What is a pamphlet that convinced Americans to support independence?
The British soldiers' uniforms were a bright color and made the soldiers easier to see. For this reason, they were given a colorful nickname.
What are the REDCOATS
This conflict sent the British into a large amount of debt
What is the French & Indian War?
This was the place Washington and his soldiers spent Winter, a miserable and deadly place for his men.
What is VALLEY FORGE
She wrote poetry and plays against the British
Who is MERCY OTIS WARREN
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed
July 4th, 1776
This law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains after the F&I War
What is the Proclamation of 1763? (Appalachian, Proclamation!)
What is the British government called? (legislature, bicameral)
What is PARLIAMENT?
Laws imposed by British parliament as a punishment for Massachusettes' actions in the Boston Tea Party
What are the INTOLERABLE ACTS
Washington crossed this river and beat the Hessians in this town for the first colonist vistory
What is DELAWARE AND TRENTON
Father of the United States Navy
Who is JOHN PAUL JONES?
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”
What is this in reference to?
What is the QUARTERING ACT?
These Acts were meant to Coerce the colonists into doing what Britain wanted. They were designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
DOUBLE: List the three major parts of these Acts
What are the Intolerable Acts?
DOUBLE: Close Boston Harbour, Dissolve legislatures, Quartering Act
England/Britain's approach to the colonies where they left the colonies alone and allowed them to do their own thing
DOUBLE: What did this end up helping?
What is SALUTARY NEGLECT?
Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain. "No taxation....
What is "WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
The war ended when the British lost this battle
What is YORKTOWN
This British general led the march through New York, before ultimately losing at Saratoga
What is GENERAL BURGOYNE
"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly…"
He has attacked our governments by dissolving our legislatures (or some such response)
What laws passed indirect taxes on everyday goods & included the Writs of Assistance?
What are the TOWNSHEND ACTS?
A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
+50 points: name of the soldiers hired by the British
What is a MERCENARY or HESSIAN
Meeting in which a group of delegates (representatives) acted as the government for the American colonies and declared Independence.
Who is the SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What battle & who said this?
What is BUNKER HILL and WILLIAM PRESCOTT?
This Enlightenment thinker inspired some of the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence
DOUBLE: What were his words on people's rights?
Who was JOHN LOCKE?
DOUBLE: Life, liberty, property
These are the 3 parts of the Declaration of Independence
An introduction statement, a list of all the things they have done to us (grievances), final declaration that we are free
What act was a direct response to colonial petitions & the Stamp Act Congress?
What is the DECLARATORY ACT?