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Road to Revolution
Term | Definition |
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George Washington | Commander of the Patriot Army |
Valley Forge | Crisis for Washington's Army; wintertime;soldiers trained by French |
Colonial | one who settles in a new region |
boycott | stop buying goods |
Opposition | being against |
Parliament | law making group in England/Britain |
Legislature | group that makes laws |
Representatives | represent people in government |
Economic Policy | plan for money |
Loyalist | faithful to Britain and the King |
Patriot | one who loved America |
Grievances | caomplaint against the king |
unalienable Rights | not able to be taken away; born with it |
Imposed | forcing something |
Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
Crispus Attucks | first colonist to die ; Boston Massacre |
Battle of Yorktown | British Surrender; Revolutionary War ends |
Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the war; secured supplies and support from the French |
Battle of Lexington & Concord | British looking for Patriot military supplies |
Boston Tea Party | Patriots threw British tea into Boston Harbor; England responded with Intolerable Acts |
Lafayette | Frenchman who trained Patriot soldiers |
Proclamation 1763 | imposed limits on westward expansion; cannot move beyond Appalachian Mountains |
No taxation without representation | slogan chanted by colonists against the king; colonists had no representatives in British Parliament |
Stamp Act | tax on paper goods; damaged relationship between colonist and England |
French and Indian War | war over land; England had a lot of debt at the end of the war; taxation was the answer |