French and Indian War
This war also goes by another name. What is it?
Seven Years War
This 1764 law lowered the tax on molasses but cracked down on smuggling.
Sugar Act
These colonists wanted independence and to break free from Britain.
Patriots
In 1774, 12 colonies met here to decide how to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
Philadelphia
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Both the French and British wanted this valuable body of water for trade and resources.
Ohio River Valley
This act banned the colonies from printing their own paper bills.
Currency Act
These colonists remained faithful to the King and opposed independence.
Loyalists
This rider became famous for warning colonists of advancing British troops.
Paul Revere
These two men helped edit Jefferson’s draft.
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin
Britain’s victory gave them new land, but also left them struggling with this financial problem.
Debt
Colonists had to house, feed, and supply British soldiers under this law
Quartering Act
This man from Virginia became commander of the Continental Army and stood firmly with the Patriots.
George Washington
The Revolution officially began with these battles, remembered as the “shot heard ’round the world.”
Lexington and Concord
Jefferson wrote that people are born with the unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the ___________.”
Pursuit of Happiness
What is the name of the Act King George III put into place to tell colonists where they could not go? AND what year was it?
Proclamation Act of 1763
The first direct tax from Parliament that hit newspapers, legal papers, and even dice.
Stamp Act
This leader is remembered as a trouble maker and helped organize the Boston Tea Party.
Samuel Adams
Britain hired 20,000 of these professional German soldiers to help crush the rebellion.
The Declaration of Independence was officially adopted on this date.
July 4th, 1776
To avoid more conflict with Native Americans, King George III banned settlement west of these mountains
Appalachians
Colonists showed their anger at this act by destroying British goods during a harbor protest.
Tea Act
"Give me Liberty or give me Death" was said by which famous leader?
Patrick Henry
This 1776 pamphlet explained independence in plain language, convincing many colonists.
Common Sense Pamphlet
This document declared the colonists were now ____
Free