| A | B |
|---|
| Stamp Act | Tax on paper/First Direct tax |
| Intolerable Acts | Closing of Boston Harbor |
| Quartering Act | Feed and clothe soldiers |
| Boston Massacre | propanda print |
| Boston Tea Party | East India Company |
| Stamp Act Congress | Boycott English Goods |
| Quebec Act I | Candians can set up own government |
| Quartering Act II | Had to house and feed soldiers in their homes |
| Battle of Lexington/Concord | Who shot first |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | shows British the spirit of Americans even though Americans lose |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of Rev. War |
| Battle of Yorktown | Bye Bye Cornwallis |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | Cannot settle west of Appalachians |
| Ethan Allan | Green Mountain Boys |
| Benedict Arnold | Great leader but turned against Americans |
| Deborah Sampson | dresses like a man to fight in war |
| Molly Pitcher | After husbands dies takes over at the cannon |
| Ben Franklin | Seeks to get Canada to help fight against British |
| John Hancock | President of 2nd continental congress |
| Declaratory Act | King George III says his piece |
| Declaration of Independence | potential death sentence for signers |
| Olive Branch Petition | last ditch effort to keep peace with England |
| Sam Adams | Busy body, created sons of liberty, committees of correspondence, Puritan |
| Patrick Henry | Great speaker, house of burgesses, famous quotes |
| Thomas Paine | Great Writer, wrote common sense |
| George Washinton | General of Continental army |
| William(Billy) Dawes | Pretended to be drunk to get by guards and ride onto Concord |
| Dr. Samuel Prescott | Visiting Fiance in Lexinton and made it back to Concord to warn them to hide ammunition |
| John Ruttledge | Went with Ben Franklin to learn about Iroquois Nation |
| Mother Batherick | Six British soldiers surrendered to her |
| Abigail Adams | thought George Washingtonm was made of majestic fabric |
| David Lamson | Elderly black man from Concord who lead raid on British supply wagon |
| Capt. John Parker | "Stand your ground and don't fire unles....." |
| John Locke/Jean Jacques Rosseau | prominent enlightenment thinkers |
| Thomas Jefferson | famous cousin of Peyton Randolph |
| Peyton Randolph | lst continental congress president |
| Richard Henry Lee | Hand shot of in accident |
| Breeds Hill | real battlesite of Bunker Hll |
| Paul Revere | Made propaganda print of Boston Massacre- die hard patriot |
| Caesay Rodney | Delegate from Delaware with a great passion for American Independence |
| Phyllia Wheatley | freed slave who wrote patriotic poems praising George Washington |
| Baron Von Steuben | Pretended to be general when only a captain in order to help American cause for freedom |
| Marquis De Lafayette | Wealthy frenchman who desparately wanted to help Americans fight - admired George Washington greatly |
| Thaddeus Kosciusko | Helped fight at Saratoga and asked in his will to have his land in America sold to buy freedoms for slaves |
| Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allens group of fighters |
| 2nd Continental Congress | Here wrote the Dec. of Independence |
| 1st Continental Congress | Group urged colonies to form militias and boycott English goods |
| Navigation Acts | Started in 1650's but not fully enforced until Grenville Acts |
| Boston Massacre | 5 victims known as the first to fall for cause of liberty |
| Townshend Acts | taxes on lead, tea, glass and paper |
| Grenville Acts | Enforced Navigation Acts, Stamp Act and Quartering Act I |
| Patriots | those who were fighting for Independece from England |
| Loyalists | Those who were supportive of England's rule |
| East India Company | England tried to save from bankruptcy |
| John Adams | Defended soldier of Boston Massacre and had a great deal of integrity |
| Firebrands | Thomas Paine, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry |
| King George III | Raging lunatic who called the colonies children |
| Hayem Salomen | Spied for Patriots, helped them get loans from other countries/people |
| Hessians | Hired solider/mercenaries who fought for England |
| People War | A time when men, women and children help in fight |
| Hanging in Effigy | used to scare tax collectors |
| Articles of Confederation | First form of government for united colonies |
