| A | B |
|---|
| John Adams | Championed Independence in Continental Congress |
| Benjamin Franklin | Prominent member of Continental Congress |
| George Washington | Led the Continental Army |
| Lord Cornwallis | Surrendered at Yorktown |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the war |
| Battle of Lexington & Concord | First armed conflict of the war |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonist protest taxes |
| Treaty of Paris | Officially ended the war |
| Patrick Henry | Said, "Give me liberty, or give me death" |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| John Locke | English philosopher who said governments protect the people's rights |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Hampered movement of settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| French & Indian War | Put the English government in debt |
| Intolerable Acts | England's response to the Boston Tea Party |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers shot colonists |
| Quartering Act | Abled England to place soldiers in people's homes |
| Colonial Governors | Colonist resented their power |
| Colonial Legislatures | England wanted strict control over them |
| Parliament | Where colonists wanted representation |
| Life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness | "Certain unalienable rights" |
