PEOPLE
He was the King during the Revolutionary War
George III
This said the colonies could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
the proclamation of 1763
This act placed a tax on all printed materials
stamp act
This war had the colonists, British, French and Indians involved fighting for the Ohio Valley
The French and Indian War
What is a grievance?
Complaint
Paul Revere
This event ended in the death of 5 colonists with others injured.
Boston Massacre
This act made it so all imports and exports had go to England first to be taxed.
Navigation Acts
The sons of liberty dressed in disguises and dumped tea into the boston harbor.
Boston Tea Party
The writs of assistance allowed for this to happen
searching of smuggled goods in colonial homes
He was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What is Taxation without Representation?
colonists had no representation in british parliament
This act strengthened the quartering act, blockaded the Boston harbor and removed self government from Massachusetts?
Coercive or Intolerable Acts
Common sense was a pamphlet going around the colonies vying for independence from Britain. He wrote it?
Thomas Paine
What happened to the British soldiers that took part in the Boston Massacre?
2 were found guilty
These colonists were know to support British rule and did not think taxing was unjust.
Loyalists
One of the grievances the colonists had written in the Declaration of Independence was allowing for this during time of peace
a standing army
This act placed taxes on regular items like tea, glass and paint?
Townshend Acts
The shot heard round the world happened here at this battle starting the revolution
Lexington and Concord
The introduction of the Declaration of Independence is called?
Preamble
After Gaining experience in the French and Indian War, he would lead the Continental Army
George Washington
These were stripped from the colonists and was their main reason for wanting independence.
Individual Freedoms/Rights/Natural Rights
This act was supposed to benefit the colonists with a lower tax
tea act
This was written one year after the war started
Declaration of Indepenence
Tyranny