| A | B |
|---|
| Sugar Act | Tax on Sugar |
| Stamp Act | Tax on documents, newspapers, playing cards, dice etc. |
| Boston Massacre | British fire upon a crowd of colonists, killing 5 |
| Tea Act | Tax on tea, and colonist can only buy tea from British Tea Company |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonist protest the Tea Act by dumping tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | punishment for Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | colonists must provide housing and food for British soldiers |
| Common Sense | written by Thomas Paine to encourage colonists for fight for independence |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson, declaring freedom from Great Britain |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | first battle of the revolution, "Shot heard 'round the world" |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point battle, convinces France to become our ally |
| Valley Forge | Training camp, blizzard conditions and diseases kill many |
| Battle of Yorktown | Last battle of the revolution, British Gen. Cornwallis surrenders |
| Treaty of 1783 | Officially ends the war, British recognizes that U.S. is an independent nation |
