Vocabulary
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there.
What is colonization?
The tax on sugar and other goods; first act to raise revenue from colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
The act of refusing to buy goods as a protest.
What is a boycott?
The commander of Continental Army; first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
The document formally declaring separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The colonists who supported independence from Great Britain.
What is a patriot?
The act that gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales.
What is the Tea Act?
The protest where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The British monarch during American Revolution who refused colonial demands.
Who is King George III?
The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War; Britain recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain.
What is a loyalist?
The act that required colonists to pay tax on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
The secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
The primary author of Declaration of Independence; third U.S. President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The conflict between Britain and France over North American territory.
What is the French and Indian War?
The British policy of imposing taxes on colonies without allowing them representation in Parliament.
What is "taxation without representation?"
The act that required colonists to house and supply British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The women who supported boycotts through making homemade goods.
What are the Daughters of Liberty?
The diplomat, inventor, and negotiator of French alliance.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The first colonial meeting to address British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction.
What is mercantilism?
The Acts that put heavy taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The making of clothes at home instead of buying British textiles.
What is the Homespun Movement?
The leading revolutionary who organized colonial resistance.
Who is Samuel Adams?
The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?