Rulers, Rebels & Revolutionaries
He was the King of England during the American Revolution
King George III
This was the name of the war that caused the British to go into debt (and as a result, tax the colonists!)
French and Indian War
A charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.
Taxes
This group became known as the first black battalion in United States military history because of the large numbers of black soldiers in its ranks.
The First Rhode Island Regiment
This is the name for the people living in the 13 colonies who wanted independence from Britain and the king
Patriots
This person rose to notoriety during the French and Indian War when he proved himself a leader in battle.
George Washington
This was a street clash that left 5 colonists dead in 1770.
Boston Massacre
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system
Revolution
This person is regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Crispus Attucks
This was the political protest where American colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
Boston Tea Party
This is the name for people living in the British colonies who supported the king and did not want independence.
Loyalists
This act taxed paper goods in the colonies.
Stamp Act
This is a strategy of refusing to purchase goods.
Boycott
This woman disguised herself as a man to fight in the Continental Army in the war. She removed a musket ball from her own thigh to prevent doctors from discovering her identity.
Deborah Sampson
This country allied with the American colonists during the war and played a crucial role in helping them win.
France
This person wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
This made it illegal for colonists to move west of the Appalachian mountains.
Proclamation Line of 1763
A real or imagined wrong, unfair treatment, or hardship that gives someone a valid reason to complain (there is a section in the Declaration of Independence that lists a lot of these!)
Grievance
This woman was known as the clothesline spy. She would hang up laundry on her clothesline to send secret messages about what the British were doing!
Anna Smith Strong
This famous phrase was a rallying call for the colonists who were upset at increasing taxes by the British.
This was the name of the spy ring that gave George Washington crucial information about British troop movements during the war.
Culper Spy Ring
This was passed by the king in response to the Boston Tea Party.
A region of land that is under the political control of another country (the controlling country is typically far away geographically).
Colony
This person was one of America's first great writers and poets. She was an enslaved woman from Massachusetts wrote about politics and slavery, hoping that the war would bring about freedom for all slaves in America.
Phillis Wheatley
This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Virginia 1781.