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American Revolution

unit 4

TermDefinition
Committees of Correspondence method of communication between towns and colonies about how to challenge new British laws
stamp Act of 1765 required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items
Boston Massacre shootings by British soldiers that killed five colonists
Tea Act an act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea directly to the colonists
Boston Tea Party a protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped over 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Quartering Act required colonists to house British soldiers
First Continental Congress gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America
Patriots colonists who chose to fight for independence
Redcoats British soldiers wearing red uniforms
minutemen Members of the local militia who were ready to fight at a minute's notice
Second Continental congress meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775
Continental army army created by the second Continental Congress to carry out the fight against Britain
Battle of Bunker Hill battle won by the British but with double the losses of the Patriots
common Sense a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America
Declaration of Independence the document that formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain
Loyalists colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain
mercenaries foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay
Battle of Trenton a battle won by the Patriots against Heasian mercenaries
Battle of Saratoga a great victory for the American forces in which British general John Burgoyne surrendered his entire army to American general Horatio Gates
Battle of Yorktown the last major battle of the American Revolution
Treaty of Paris of 1783 the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized r independence of the United states
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