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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Events of the War
The Original 13 colonies
Key Historical Figures
100
money that people have to pay the government
What is a tax?
100
patriot soldiers who could be ready to fight in a minute's notice
Who are minutemen?
100
Britain ordered the colonies to buy a tax stamp to put on important papers (1765)
What is The Stamp Act?
100
Fought on Breed's Hill, Patriots built a fort overnight and were beat by the British the next day after running out of bullets (1775)
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
100
general in the Colonial Army
Who is George Washington?
200
the killing of a group of people
What is a massacre?
200
a group of colonists who met in secret to plan ways to fight against British taxes
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200
Formal announcement that America was free from Britain's rule
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia
What are the Southern colonies?
200
started the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
colonists who felt strongly about their loyalty to Britain
Who are loyalists?
300
the signal, using lanterns, to warn that the British were coming
What is "one if by land, two if by sea"?
300
Fought in two towns, the British were outnumbered and retreated to Boston (1774).
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
Deleware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
What are the Middle Colonies?
300
the King of Britain during the time of the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
400
freedom from being controlled by another government
What is liberty?
400
a large bell that rang all day to show that the Declaration of Independence had been approved
What is the colonists to help pay for the war?
400
Patriots threw snowballs filled with rocks at a British soldier. Other British soldiers rushed to help and someone yelled, "Fire" (1770)
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island
What are the original New England colonies?
400
A silversmith who warned the colonists that the British were coming to Boston
Who is Paul Revere?
500
the British Government
What is parliament?
500
the colonists had no say in Parliament, and could not vote on the taxes in the Stamp Act.
What is "taxation without representation"?
500
Colonists rowed out to British ships, leapt aboard and dumped tons of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
land owned by another country
What is a colony?
500
believed everyone, even the British deserved to be treated fairly.
Who is John Adams?