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Road to Revolution 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Samuel Adams | Colonist who started the Committee of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty Wrote about the Boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | Famous Virginian who tried to persuade colonists that taxes were unfair. Famous for "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| Paul Revere | Colonist who warned the towns of Concord and Lexington that "The Redcoats are coming!" |
| Sons of Liberty | The group formed to protest British actions |
| Loyalists | Colonists who remain loyal to the king (of England) |
| Patriots | Colonists who believe that the colonies should not be ruled by England |
| minutemen | colonial men who were ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| imperial policies | laws and orders issued by the King and British Parliament |
| Yorktown | the last major battle of the American Revolution |
| Saratoga | battle that marked the turning point of the American Revolution |
| Kettle Creek | only major victorious battle in Georgia that kept the British from controlling all of Georgia |
| Valley Forge | Where Washington rested his troops for the winter; France sent money and troops to help the Americans |
| Battle of Trenton | a surprise attack on Christmas night that gave renewed hope to the Americans; Hessians helped in this battle |
| Boston Massacre | began as a snowball fight; ended with five dead including Crispus Attucks |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dressed up like Mohawk Indians and threw tea into the harbor to protest the taxes on goods by England |
| Stamp Act | first tax imposed by England; tax on any paper product |
| Townshend Act | Taxes imposed by the British government on lead, paper, paint, tea and glass imported from England |
| boycott | a form of protest where a group of people refuse to buy products from a supplier |
| Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) | laws to punish colonists included closing Boston Harbor, no public meetings, quartering of soldiers |
| 1st Continental Congress | meeting of colonial representatives where a letter was written to the King explaining why taxing was unfair |
| French and Indian War | French fighting British over land in the Ohio River Valley |
| Lexington and Concord | beginning of the war - 1st time Redcoats and Minutemen fight; Paul Revere's ride |
| Declaration of Independence | Preamble, Grievances, Rights and Declaration of Independence - written to the king - Thomas Jefferson was main author |
| Committee of Correspondence | colonies wrote to other colonies in order to share important news |
| Treaty of Paris | officially ended the war |
| Marquis de Lafayette | young man from France who joined the Continental Army and used his own money to buy warm clothes for the soldiers; called "the soldier's friend" |
| representation | to have a voice in one's government |
| Proclamation of 1763 | a document declaring that only Native Americans could live on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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