| A | B |
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| Sugar act | taxed basic good that the colonist needed like, molasses, sugar, coffe- some colonist smuggled goods bc they didnt want to pay taxes |
| Currency act | could only use gold and silver, they burned paper money- gold and silver hard to get |
| Quartering Act | Had to let the british stay in their houses |
| Stamp Act | When all the documents had to be stamped including birth certificate and liscences |
| Townshed act | tax colonist to make a war burden(dept) |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonist sneaked up on the british and stole their tea and blew it uP |
| "no taxation without representation | Colonist say this because they feel that they are being taxed for no reason |
| "Join or DIe" | benjamin franklins political cartoon saying you cant not be in the war |
| proclamation of 1763 | Britian has won the war |
| Thomas Paine | wrote common sense- in there it said- it is absurd that a continent is ruled by an island- sparked the americans |
| Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks died, led to concord and lexington |
| George Grenville | prime minister of england- started taxing colonist for no reason |
| Crispus Attucks | first african american to die- died in the boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | scared that a strong central goverment would take away basic freedom |
| Benjamin Franklin | Made and signed the Declaration of Independance |
| Thomas Jefferson | main writter and signer of the Declaration fo Independance because he was the President at the time |
| George Washington | led the troops in lexington |
| Alexander Hamilton | Signed the DOI |
| Intolerable Act | after the boston tea party reaction, english made a law to punish the colonies especially massachusettes |
| Lexington | battle that started the revolutionary war- the colonist lost |
| Concord | battle that led up to bunker hill- colonist lost |
| Bunker hill | british and colonist met on hill- the colonist were on the top of the hill while the british were at the bottom so it was very easy for the colonist to kill the british. there were much more british soldiers than colonist so they won but the colonist killed SO many more of the british men that it was almost a victory for them |
| Abigail Adams | said that the colonist won in their own way "the land that the british gained at a bunker hill price" you pay too much for a victory |
| Radicals | People who really stand up for what they believe |
| Loyalist | people who are loyal to the crown during the american revolution |
| Moderates | people who prefer gradual change |
| Boycott | to stop doing something because you believe its wrong |
| Shot heard around the world | the actual shot gun of the battle at bunker hill |
| Declaration of Independance | states the Rules and guidlines of America as a free country- also states that the colonist have their own country |
