Vocabulary
disloyalty to a country by helping an enemy
treason
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
What land did the French and British disagree about, resulting in the French and Indian War?
Land along the Ohio River.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
One of the acts closed Boston’s port. Another took away most of Massachusetts’s right to self-government and appointed a British general as the governor. Bostonians were ordered to quarter—or house—British troops in their homes.
breaking the rules on purpose
defiant
The man who wanted to convince colonists to gain independence from Britain through a famous pamphlet known as Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
This battle ended the American Revolution.
The Battle of Yorktown
What event occurred because of the Tea Act?
The Boston Tea Party
a soldier from one country paid to fight for another country
mercenary
A group of people that resisted the Stamp Act.
The Sons of Liberty
This battle earned the nickname, "The shot heard around the world."
Battle of Lexington and Concord
What was the Stamp Act?
It was a law that placed a tax on roughly fifty different kinds of printed paper, including newspapers and legal documents.
a person living in the colonies who did not support the
American cause and remained loyal to Great Britain
This man was a hero in the American Navy.
John Paul Jones
The Battle of Trenton
Why did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?
No Taxation without Representation!
The colonists did not think they had to pay taxes as they did not have anyone speaking for them in the British government.
the idea that American colonists did not have a say in the English Parliament, which enacted taxes without their consent.
“taxation without representation”
This man trained soldiers at Valley Forge.
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
General Burgoyne's army was left alone at this battle while General Howe was capturing Philadelphia. The American victory in this battle convinces France to join the American Revolution.
The Battle of Saratoga
Who sent the Declaration of Rights to King George III? What did the Declaration of Rights say?
The First Continental Congress; It said that as British colonists, they were entitled to all the “rights of Englishmen.” They listed the ways Parliament had taken their rights away since the French and Indian War.
They also told King George III that the colonists were still loyal to him. They asked him to consider their complaints.