Causes
What war did the colonists help fight in that caused them to face British taxes in order to pay for it?
The French and Indian War
What is the Quartering Act?
Forcing citizens to house soldiers in their homes.
A person who is willing to fight until independence is won.
Patriot
What was the spark of the American Revolution?
Who was chosen to be the Commander and Chief of the American militia?
General George Washington
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
What act required colonists to pay a tax on lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea?
Townshend Act
A person who remained in support of Great Britain and did not want independence.
Loyalists
True or False: The Declaration of Independence ended the Revolutionary War
What do you call Patriot soldiers that volunteer to fight at any time?
Minutemen/Militia
The Sugar Act was put in place to stop colonists from stopping what action?
Smuggling
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called:
Taxation without Representation
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight rides warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord.
Paul Revere
During this event, the Patriots were weak, starving, freezing, suffered from small pox and dirty.
Valley Forge
What was the temporary government during the revolution called?
the Continental Congress
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
The Boston Massacre
After the French and Indian War the British feared that the colonists would continue to get in fights with the Native Americans, therefore the British would not allow the colonists to move west into the new land they won. What is this called.
The Patriot who disagreed with unfair British taxes and wanted to organize people to protest against the laws. He started the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
During this final battle the British were surrounded by land and sea.
Battle of Yorktown
The examples below describe what?
-Shooting from concealment, targeting high ranking officers to leave the enemy without leadership, shooting Native American guides
Guerrilla Warfare
After the Boston Tea Party the British passed the Intolerable Acts. What did the Intolerable Acts say?
1. Closed the port of Boston until all tea was paid for
2. Banned town meetings
3. Made colonists quarter soldiers in their homes
4. Allowed British officials to be tried for any crime in Britain.
Give two examples of how colonists protested the unfair British taxes.
Boycotts
Marches in the the streets
Petitions
Burning tax collector rags
Breaking in to tax collectors homes
Who wrote the document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
Thomas Jefferson
This battle was the turning point of the American Revolution.
Battle of Saratoga
Name the treaty that ended the American Revolution and give on example of something it said.
Treaty of Paris 1783
-GB had to recognize the US as an independent nation
-GB had to remove all troops
-US gains land from Atlantic to Mississippi R. and from Canada to Spanish FL
-US also had to give loyalists their property back and had to pay off trade debts with GB