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Road to Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |