American Revolution Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| 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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