| A | B |
|---|
| Olive Branch Petition | This was offered as a last attempt at peace |
| Legislature | Law-making body |
| Articles of Confederation | Formed a weak government with no main leader |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| Loyalists | colonists who wanted to stay under British rule |
| Lexington | Where Revolutionary War began |
| King George III | Ruler of Britain |
| Paul Revere | "The British are coming, the British are coming!" |
| Patriots | colonists in favor of a new nation |
| Quakers | Did not believe in war |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote the Common Sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | Was chosen to write most of the Declaration of Independence |
| Benjamin Franklin | Helped to write the Declaration of Independence |
| Seize | To capture |
| Independence | Freedom |
| Common Sense | This document was written to inspire colonists to fight |
