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The year is 1765 and the King of England requires colonists to buy a stamp for almost all paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act
This war left England with massive amounts of debt and new territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the French and Indian War?
What religious revival swept across the colonies influencing colonists to be more independent and to question the authority of the King.
What is the First Great Awakening?
He was the leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington.
The document that stated America is their own free country.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
This act required colonists to house and give supplies to British soldiers in the colonies in exchange for "protection".
What is the Quartering Act?
Supporters of the King and England are also known as this vocabulary term.
Who are loyalists?
King George III declared all newly won terrify west of the Appalachians offlimits to colonists with what law?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The phrase most used by the Sons of Liberty.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
He was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
Fill in the blank:
The Tea Act made selling tea from the British East India _________ than buying American Tea.
What is cheaper?
The King was accused of being what vocabulary term?
What is a tyrant?
This was the event when British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing innocent civilians.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These soldiers volunteered to fight for independence.
Who were the militia?
Also acceptable minutemen.
He was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock.
The Townshend Acts taxed paint, lead,glass, paper and tea. It also allowed customs to do what.
What is enter anyone's home without probable cause?
These were the first two battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This was the event in which many Patriots boarded a British ship and destroyed all of the product on board.
What is the Boston Tea Party
This secret society had a goal to prevent the British Empire from receiving money and goods from the colonies, and to advance the rights of colonists.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Which two countries offered help to America at the END of the war?
What are Spain and France.
The Intolerable Acts closed the Port of Boston, sent over 3,000 British soldiers to the city, and put a new governer in place to punish the colonists because of what event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
General Cornwallis became trapped at this location in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
Paul Revere created a print of the Boston Massacre. The image shows colonists being brutally attacked by the Redcoats. What was the name of the African/Indigenous man who was depicted as White colonist.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
On the night of April 26, 1777, a 16-year-old climbed onto her horse and set off on a mission: a 40-mile ride to muster local militia troops in response to a British attack on the town of Danbury, Connecticut.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
These were German soldiers that were hired by the British to fight during the American Revolution.
What are Hessians.