| A | B |
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| American Revolution | the war and the political and social changes that acoompanied the revolution |
| War for Independance | the war itself |
| French and Indian War | British and the colonists waged war against the French and their native American allies over control of eastern North America |
| minutemen/ militia | local residents who pledged to respond to attacks in a moments notice |
| George Washington | general during the revolutionary war and he later went on to become the first president of the United States |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Native Americans revolt against British policies isn the Great Lakes |
| Proclamation of 1763 | The British forbade colonists from moving west of the Appalachian mountains |
| Stamp Act | tax on all paper products |
| "Taxation without representation" | The colonists response after the passage of the Stamp Act |
| Boston Tea Party | in response to the Tea Act which taxed tea the colonists rebelled by dumping tea into the harbor. |
| Intolerable Acts | series of acts passed to punish the colony of Massachusetts |
| King George III | British King whom impossed many harse restrictions and acts on the colonies |
| Natural Rights | rights that belong to all human beings |
| Social Contract | Agreement between a government and it's people |
| Popular Sovereignty | that ordinary people should be in controll of the government, that they can and should govern themselves. |
| Declaration of Independance | written by Thomas Jefferson. Declares independance of colonies and lists the greivances of the colonists toward the King |
| John Locke | philosopher that believed in natural rights "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" |
| Thomas Paine | author of the pamphlet "Common Sense", which encourage the colonists to break free from England |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independance, inventor, founder of the University of Virginia and 3rd President of the United States |
| Treaty of Paris | George III gave colonies their sovereignty |
| Loyalists/ Tories | those colonists loyal to the British crown |
| American Advantages | will to fight for independance, fighting on own territory, supplies available |
| American Disadvantages | no navy, no army, no real govenment, disorganized |
| British Advantages | strong navy and military, loyalists helped the cause |
| British Disadvantages | war was not popular in Britian, supplies thousands of miles away, enemy spread out, enemy used guerilla war tactics |
| Yorktown | General Washinton defeated British with the help of the French Fleet |
| Gen. Cornwallis | Leader of the British forces |
| King George III | rotten King of England |
| Paul Revere | rode to tell the colonists that the British were coming |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Sons of Liberty | were accused of destroying a shipment of tea at the Boston Tea Party |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers came to the aid of a felwo soldier, firing into an angry mob killing 5 colonists. |
| Bunker Hill | first battle of the Revolution |
| Patriots | american rebel forces fighting for independance |
| Mrs. Lamore | cool teacher |
| Ben Franklin | oldest signer of the declaration of independance and the constitution |
| John Adams | ambassador to France during the Revolution later became the 2nd president |
| Benadict Arnold | was offered a bribe from the British army and is known as "the traitor" to the colonists cause |
