CAUSES
Placed taxes on glass, paint paper and tea replaced the Stamp Act- proposed that revenue raised should be used to pay royal officials salaries
Townshend Acts
Author of Declaration?
Thomas Jefferson
This battle is known as the turning point in the war
Saratoga
Group that wrote letters to each other informing each other on what was going on in the colonies. A way to spread information quickly throughout the colonies
Committees of Correspondence
Word that means refusals to buy British goods
boycott
The event that occurred on March 5, 1770, and resulted in the deaths of 5 colonists.
The longest part of the Declaration was a list of _____________________ or complaints
Grievances
Last major battle where Cornwallis was surrounded?
Yorktown
Who wrote the pamphlet, "Common Sense?"
Thomas Paine
The year the Revolutionary War began
1775
The Tea Act placed a monopoly on tea that let to this protest
The Boston Tea Party
This person was the first to sign it and signed it the largest
John Hancock
Battle in which Washington crosses the Delaware River in a surprise attack on Hessian troops
Battle of Trenton, NJ
This revolutionary hero was hanged for being a spy. Known for saying, "I regret that I have just one life to loose for my country."
Nathan Hale
This person is known for warning the colonists that the British soldiers were coming to take their weapons. He organized a plan of hanging lanterns in the North Church
Paul Revere
These Acts were placed upon the Massachusetts colonists as punishment for the Boston Tea Party
Coercive or Intolerable Acts
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
Place where the colonist built a camp after Saratoga; built huts, few men had uniforms and shoes; around 2,000 died.
Valley Forge
This person became a traitor because he first helped the Continental Army, but later let British attacks
Benedict Arnold
Giving complete control of a good to one person. Britain's East India Company had this on tea
Monopoly
Name one punishment issued to the colonists under the the Intolerable Acts
Closed the port of Boston until tea was paid for
Massachusetts legislature was put under control of British General Thomas Gage
Quartering Soldiers
Rights that cannot be taken away, we are born with them
Unalienable Rights
What battle does the saying "The first shot heard round the word" refer to
Lexington and Concord
Sons of Liberty
In 1783, this document was signed in France, giving the colonies their independence.
Treaty of Paris