People
This person fought against the French during the French and Indian war (pg 238)
Gorge Washington
This was repelled in march 1770 (pg 200)
Townshed act
This event protested against tax on tea by destroying it (pg 203)
The Boston tea party
These were members of the local militias who would be ready to fight in a minutes notice (pg 207)
minutemen
These people are volunteer armies colonist (pg 207)
militias
This person encouraged colonist to part with great Britain and become an independent country (pg 214)
Thomas Paine
This act shut down the Boston harbor (pg 204)
Coercive act
European rivals who fought over land in north America (pg 192)
The french and Indian war
This means to force someone to do something (pg 204)
coere
This word means freedom (pg 213)
independence
This person helped create a commitee of correspondes in his colony so that even people in rural areas and other colonies had access to information (pg 202)
Samuel Adams
This meant that it would be controlled by the British military (pg 204)
Martial law
This event sent shockwaves through the colonies (pg 201)
Boston massacre
This word means unbearable (pg 204)
Intolerable
This means having the same rights as everyone else (pg 214)
equality
this person was a spy (pg 189)
James Armistead
This taxed every piece of printed paper the colonist used (pg 194)
Stamp act
This was signed by 56 delegates in 7/4/1776 (pg 216)
Declaration of independence
This were colonist opposite to Britain's action (pg 205)
patriots
This means attempting to over thrown one's government (pg 215)
treason
This person was a enslaved African American. And they were a poet and a strong supporter of independence (Pg 227)
Phillis Wheatly
This stated that only the British east India company could sell tea in the colonies (pg 203)
Tea act
This took place in Philadelphia in 1774 (pg 206)
first continental congress meet
These are people that were loyal to Britain (pg 205)
loyalist
This means soldiers hired by a foreign country (pg 223)
mercenaries