People
Ben franklin did this leading up to the war.
What is help write the declaration of independence?
An act part of the Greenville acts that put a tax on stamps.
What was the stamp act?
When the colonists stopped buying stamps from the stamp tax.
What was boycotts?
The group of people involved in the Boston Tea party and the main protesters of British rule over America.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
The battle when Britain figured out where America was stockpiling their guns and were met by minutemen.
Thomas Paine did this leading up to the war.
What is wrote the pamphlet common sense?
An act part of the Greenville acts that allowed the British soldiers to order the colonists to let them stay in their homes and eat their food.
A group called the Sons Of Liberty dressed up as Indians and dumped a supply ship's tea overboard.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A nickname used to describe the British.
What is redcoats?
The first true battle of the revolution; Britain won but had many more casualties than America.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill
People trained to be ready to fight a battle quickly.
Who are minutemen?
The acts Britain used to punish America for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
What the Americans called themselves.
What are patriots?
The Adams that was the most aggressive. He was an important member of the Sons of Liberty and wanted the british to pay for their crimes after the Boston Massacre.
Who was Samuel Adams?
The acts placed after The French and Indian war to tax items going to America so Britain could financially recover.
What are the Townshend acts?
The first meeting where delegates from each colony (except Georgia) came to Independence Hall to discuss what to do about the British.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Colonists loyal to the king were called this.
What were Loyalists?
The more intelligent and logical Adams. He liked to follow the law and was a lawyer. He defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre voluntarily.
The collection of acts that Prime Minister Greenville instituted, (Ex. The sugar act, the stamp act, and the quartering act).
What are the Greenville acts?
The second meeting at independence hall in Philadelphia. During this meeting the delegates officially decided to start the war.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
The people that inhabited the land before the colonists came.
Who were Native Americans?