American Revolution
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- Revolution
- The replacement of one ruling group with another
- Protest
- To express your disapproval
- Rebellion
- A resistance to authority. Often an armed uprising against a government
- Treason
- To Betray or Go Against your country
- Propaganda
- Exaggeration of information to convince someone of something
- Liberty
- Freedom
- Democracy
- A government controlled by the people
- Militia
- An army made up of voluntarily citizens
- Minutemen
- A group of armed citizens that could be ready at a minutes notice
- Petition
- To request change
- Ally
- A country that agrees to help another country for a common cause
- Patriot
- Colonists who wanted to break away from Great Britain
- Loyalist
- People who wanted to stay loyal to Great Britain
- Neutral
- To not take a side
- Tax
- Money paid by citizens to run a country
- Sugar Act
- A tax on Sugar and Molasses
- Stamp Act
- A tax on all legal documents that required a stamp
- Townsend Acts
- Taxes on imports into the colonies including Paint, Led, and others
- Quartering Act
- Colonists were forced to house British Soldiers
- Tea Act
- Gave British East Indian Company control on tea imports to the colonies
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped British Tea overboard
- Committees of Correspondence
- Towns that shared information and propaganda about the British
- Continental Congress
- A few representatives from each colony that acted as America's Government
- Declaration of Independence
- A Declaration declaring the colonies "Free and independent states"
- King George III
- The King of England
- Thomas Jefferson
- The writer of Declaration of Independence, Delegate from Virginia
- John Adams
- Delegate from Massachusetts, supports independence
- Ben Franklin
- Writer, Inventor, and contributer to the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine
- Writer of "Common Sense" and spoke out against King George III
- Patrick Henry
- Member of the Virginia Colonial Assembly, famous for "Give me liberty or give me death!"
- Sam Adams
- Leader of Boston Sons of Liberty
- Sons of Liberty
- Secret society of Patriots who protested against the British
- Paul Revere
- 1 of 3 riders who warned the colonists that the British were coming
- George Washington
- Led Continental Army, 1st President of the U.S.
- Lexington and Concord
- Towns that the first battles occurred in
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- British drive Patriots from hills overlooking Boston but suffer horrible losses
- Battle of Long Island
- Continental Army takes heavy losses and retreats across the Delaware River to Valley Forge
- Battle of Trenton
- Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River at night and suprise the Hessians. They capture or kill all 900 Hessians and gain much needed supplies
- Battle of Saratoga
- Patriot victory, convinced France and Spain that they should ally with the colonies
- Battle of Yorktown
- Final Battle, Washington defeats General Cornwallis and French Navy trapped the British in by sea preventing escape by sea while Continental Army and Spanish attack by land
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty ending war. 1. Gave America Independence 2. Loyalists got Property back 3. Britain returned slaves 4. Colonies extended borders, N: Canada, W: Mississippi River, S: Florida, E: Atlantic Ocean 4. Re-paid War Debt