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American Revolution
American Revolution 7th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| French and Indian War | A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe. |
| sugar act | a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. Compare Navigation Act. |
| Stamp act | an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents). |
| Townshend Acts | a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. |
| Boston Massacre | a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. |
| Tea Act | Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. |
| Boston tea party | a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly gran |
| intolerable acts | Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they |
| The First Continental Congress | a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowde |
| the Battle of Trenton | small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. |
| Battle of Saratoga | A major battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1777 in northern New York state. Benedict Arnold, who had not yet turned traitor, was a leader of the American offensive, which forced the surrender of British troops under General John Burgoyne. |
| Valley Forge definition | A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army, had been forced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold |
| Battle of Yorktown | The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. |
| preamble | a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction. |
| Declaration of Rights | a document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government. |
| bill of indictement | a written accusation as presented to a grand jury. |
| Statement of Independence | On May 27, 1776, the inhabitants of the town of Malden, Massachusetts, met to vote on a set of instructions to give to their representative to the Second Continental Congress, Ezra Sargeant. They adopted this statement of independence unanimously. |
| signatures | where delegates to congress signed their names |
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