| A | B |
|---|
| customs duty | tax on imports and exports |
| inflation | happens when money loses its value over time |
| nonimportation agreements | pledging not to buy any British goods until Parliament repeall the Stamp Act |
| writs of assistance | a general search warrant that allowed custom officials to enter any location for evidence of smuggling |
| Albany Plan of Union | proposed that the colonies unite to form a federal government-led by Benjamin Franklin |
| French and Indian War | a fight between France and Britain that began in the colonies |
| Treaty of Paris(1763) | ended French and Indian War |
| Quartering Act | colonies must provide barracks for British troops-if they did not colonist must pay for the rent |
| Committee of Correspondence | letter writing campaign by colonists to communicate British activities to other colonies |
| minutemen | special unit of men trained and ready to fight in a "minute's warning" |
| loyalists | American colonists who supported Britain during the Revolutionary War(Tories) |
| patriot | American colonists who supported the War for Independence(Whigs) |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians destroyed tea in protest to the Tea Act |
| Intolerable Acts | the Coercive Acts & Quebec Acts together that seemed to imply that the British were trying to seize control of the colonies |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | built confidence that the colonial militia could stand up to the British which was the world's most feared armies |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson, declaring American seperation from Britain(declaring themselves the United States of America) |
| guerilla warfare | a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war |
| letters of Marque | licenses issued by Congress private ships to attack British ships |
| William Howe | British General commanding troops in New York to fight the Continental Army |
| Nathan Hale | sent by Washington to spy on the British-was caught and hanged |
| Valley Forge | Continental army took up quarters there -food shortage killed 2500 men |
| Marquis de Lafayette | helped Washington improve discipline and boost morale among the weary troops |
| Saratoga | American victory against British and was turning point of war |
| John Paul Jones | American naval officer & famous for saying,"I have not yet begun to fight" |
| General Cornwallis | British general whom surrendered at Yorktown |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | turning point in South |
| Treaty of Paris(1783) | ended the Revolutionary War |
| republic | form of government where power resides with a body of citizens entitled to vote |
| emancipation | freedom from enslavement |
| manumission | voluntary freeing of enslaved persons |
| Molly Pitcher | carried water to Patriot gunners |
| Second Continental Congress | adopted Continental Army for defense and appointed George Washington as general and commander in chief of the new army-on July 4, 1776 issued the Declaration of Independence to the King of England |
