A | B |
Townshend Act | Taxes Americans on all British goods |
Sons of Liberty | Patriots- who dumped the tea |
Proclmation Line | Stopped colonists from moving west |
50 Delegates | First Continental Congress meeting |
Treaty of Paris | France loses lands in North America |
Samuel Adams | Told colonists to boycott British goods |
John Adams | Patriot and Lawyer who defended British soldiers from Boston Massacre |
Boston Massacre | Riot between BR soldiers and colonists |
George Washington and his militia | Continental Army |
Paul Revere | Drew the Bloody massacre propaganda |
King George III | Tyrant leader from Great Britain |
Patrick Henry | "I am not a Virginian but an American" |
Stamp Act | Taxes on paper products |
Quartering Act | Housing BR soldiers in colonial homes |
No taxation without Representation | Reason for protests and boycotts |
Intolerable Acts | Closed the Boston Ports |
Battle of Concord and Lexington | British trying to take the colonists hidden guns |
Olive Branch | Last failed letter to king for peace |
Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense |
Colonial Assemblies | a form of self-governing for 150 years |