| A | B |
|---|
| Parliament | British law-making body |
| Customs Duty | tarriff (tax) on imported goods |
| Revenue | Tax money |
| Minutemen | Members of New England's Militia(colonists) |
| Lexington and Concord | Where the Revolutionary War began |
| 1775 | When the Revolutionary War Began |
| Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the draft of the Declaration of Independence |
| Patriots | Believed in complete independence from England |
| George Washington | Commander in Chief of the Continental Army |
| Loyalists | Colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain |
| Torries | Another name for loyalists |
| Benjamin Franklin | Negotiated a peace treaty with with France in 1778 |
| Alliance | Treaty of friendship between two countries |
| France | Country that helped the U.S achieve independence for Great Britain |
