Monday
Conflict between the French and British over land/power in North America; British won
French and Indian War
Tyrannical British king who controlled the colonies
King George III
Heavy tax on tea in the colonies to pay britain's war debt
Tea Act
Patriot colonists met to plan additional resistance to British laws and taxes
First Continental Congress
colonists who rebelled againsts the British
patriots
Commander of the Continental Army; First president
George Washington
To cancel or reverse a law
repeal
Reaction to the Tea Act; Colonists dressed as Indians dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Colonists who volunteered to be ready to fight the British at a minute's notice
Minutemen
German mercenary soldiers hired by the British to fight the colonists
Hessians
King prohibited colonists from moving West of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclaimation of 1763
King taxed lead, paint and glass
Townshend Acts
Secret society of rebel colonists responsible for the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
"The shot heard 'round the world"; start of the Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First Battle of the Revolution; actually faught at Breed's Hill
Battle of Bunker Hill
Forced colonists to pay taxes on sugar and molasses
Sugar Act
Patriot known for saying, "Give me liberty or give me death"
Patrick Henry
King's response to the Boston Tea Party; Severe punishment for the colonists
Intolerable Acts
Colonists who were loyal to the King
loyalists
Battle that was the turning point of the Revolution
Battle of Saratoga
Taxed all printed materials in the colonies (playing cards, newspapers)
Stamp Act
March 1770, five unarmed colonists were killed by British soldiers after a scuffle with snowballs
Boston Massacre
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
United State's birthday
July 4, 1776
Last battle of the Revolution
Battle of Yorktown