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| Make sure you can label the 13 colonies on a map. | Locate a map online and make sure you know these colonies' location |
| Sam Adams | One of the first people to argue for independence;planned the Boston Tea Party |
| General George Washington | was sent with additional soldiers to stop the French from building a fort in Pennsylvania |
| Spain, England, and France | owned land in North America |
| William Pitt | Considered the "hero" of the French and Indian War; he would later become the prime minister of England. |
| Loyalists | someone who remains loyal to England during the Revolutionary War. |
| Patriot | someone who is loyal to the colonies during the Revolutionary War. |
| Minutemen | (in the period preceding and during the American Revolution) a member of a class of American militiamen who volunteered to be ready for service at a minute's notice |
| Redcoats | a British soldier |
| New England, Middle, and Southern | the three divisions the 13 colonies were separated into |
| Be able to list and explain three taxes passed on the colonies during this time. | Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Molasses Act, Iron Act |
| Be able to list four characteristics the colonies had that made them different from England. | 1.The colonies had no privileged social classes; In England there was a definite social order. 2. People owned their own farms or shops and could expect eventually to be economically independent; in England many people depended on charity 3.The colonies not only displayed a religious diversity unmatched in the western world, they were also more willing to tolerate religious difference. There was one religion in England and one church. 4. The presence of slavery; As England’s slavery population was decreasing the population in the colonies was going up |
| Boston Tea Party | A violent demonstration in 1773 by American colonists before the American Revolution. Colonists boarded vessels in Boston harbor and threw the cargoes of tea into the water in protest at the imposition of a tax on tea by the British Parliament, in which the colonists had no representation. |
| Boston Massacre | a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonist were killed, and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the anger of the citizens. |
| Benjamin Franklin | helped plan the very first intercolonial congress;helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States; attended the Continental Congress to discuss issues which would decide the road the colonists would take against England. |
| First Continental Congress | decided to stop all trade with Britain |
| intercolonial congress | a meeting of representatives of all British colonies and six allied Native American nations to develop a plan to defend their land from the French |
| Proclamation of 1763 | called for a halt to westward expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains |
| Second Continental Congress | declared that the United Colonies were free and independent form Britain; July 2nd, 1776 |
| Rallying cry for the Colonists | NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! |
| Surrender of Montreal in Quebec | last battle of the French and Indian War |
