| A | B |
|---|
| Benjamin Franklin | knew the best way to make people think was to make them laugh. He wrote the joking poem |
| William Pitt | sick old man, spoke on house of commons on jan. 14 1776 |
| George 3 | stupid boy. Furious about tea party |
| Charles Townsend | "champagne Charlie" sponsered unfair, unruly taxes |
| Lord North | George's Prime minister |
| John Rutledge | sailed from SC to NY in 1765 to meet in congress with leaders from 9 other colonies. Young, eloquent, political speaker |
| Sir William Johnson | arrived in NY with 200 Indians to buy supplies |
| The Iroquis | 6 Iroquis nationshad an idea of government that worked so well the Indians needed to learn about it |
| London | capital of John's world |
| Boston | had tea party, and closed harbor |
| New York | John Rutledge sailed there. 14000 residents per city. 2000 slaves |
| minister | religion officials, and government officials |
| PRime Minister | A chief executive of a parliament or democracy |
| peevish | "old mother" irritable |
| mongrel | A dog that mixes of breeds, a mutt |
| American Revolution | AKA war of Independence because British claimed to protect colonists |
| Stamp Act | passed in 1765, enraged most americans. A stamp had to go on each item purchased as a proof of purchase. |
| repealed | discontinued (the townsend taxe were repealed in 1770 exept for the tax on tea |
| Boston Tea Party | tax on tea. British dressed up as Indians and got aboard ships and threw english tea into the water-outrage |
| firebrand | stick of wood with a spark of fire at one end. hothead is someone who sparks revolution |
| deist | believes in god as creator of universe. they reject idea of an active god who directs wordly events |
| commities of correspondence | groups of prominent who wrote back and forth between colonies and helped each other with problems. |
| post road | Ben Franklin improved roads so they could be carried |
| courderory | is laid when a path was to muddy or steep to be traveled in any other way, like riding a washboard |
| Continental Army | American army that fought the british, raised in the continent |
| Patriot | rebels |
| rebel | Sam Adams. go against others, patriot |
| demean | lower the worth of something |
| Samuel Adams | firebrand, think well, write well, super busybody- got everyone keyed up, inspired and moving. New Englander from Boston, Puritan background |
| Patrick Henry | firebrand, great speaker, southerner |
| Thomas Paine | Firebrand, grat writer, deist, had a dream, fine mind |
| Sons of Liberty | met under liberty, created by SAM ADAMS |
| Benjamin franklin | Postmaster of colonies. Improved roads |
| Thomas Jefferson | never forgot henry's speech. lawyer |
| Demosthenes | great orater and a fighter for freedom in Ancient Greece |
| Boston | closed |
| Philidelphia | in common sence paper |
| Williamsburg | Where the council of Burgess used to meet. |
| Richmond | Where house of Burgess had to meet so they weren't caught. Henry gave his most famous speech in Richmond |
