Question | Answer |
Thomas Paine | wrote COMMON SENSE |
Samuel Adams | propagandist, created engraving of the Boston Massacre |
Benjamin Franklin | diplomat, wanted central government, supported the Albany Plan of Union |
George Washington | first general of the Continental Army, served in the French & Indian War |
Sons of Liberty | formed by Samuel Adams, stopped enforcement of the Stamp Act |
Second Continental Congress | declared war against Britain |
COMMON SENSE | argued Americans should govern themselves |
Committees of Correspondence | communicated what was happening in Boston to the other colonies |
Radicals | colonists who favored independence |
Loyalists | colonists who were loyal to Britain |
Patriots | Americans who supported the Revolutionary War |
Pacifists | people who opposed war |
propagandist | someone who describes events in a way that promotes his/her beliefs |
Albany Plan of Union | proposal to unite the colonies under a central government |
Treaty of Paris of 1783 | treaty that ended the American Revolution |
mercantilism | theory that a country would prosper if it sold more goods than it bought |
mercenaries | hired soldiers |
localism | the policy of an area acting independently |
taxation without representation | Britain had no right to tax the colonies because the colonies did not have a representative in Parliament, so they said Britain had no right to tax them. |
salutary neglect | If the colonies contributed economically to Britain, Britain would leave them alone. |
virtual representation | used to justify taxing the colonists |
minutemen | soldiers who would fight with little notice |