A | B |
General of the Continental Army | George Washington |
Representative from Massachusetts | John Adams |
Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Boston Tea Party | Protest over a tea tax. Tea dumped in the harbor |
Boston Massacre | Death of five in Boston |
Patriots | Against the king |
Loyalists | Support the king and staying with England |
Redcoats | Nickname for a British Soldier |
Import | Goods brought into a country |
Export | Goods leaving a country |
boycott | To protest a good by not buying it |
repeal | To get rid of a law |
Concord and Lexington | First Battle of the War |
Stamp Act | Tax requireing an offiical mark on documents |
Tea Act | Forced colonists to only buy British Tea |
Minutemen | colonist ready to fight in a minute against the British |