A | B |
Peter Zenger | Author of NY Weekly Journal. Jailed for speaking against the government. |
Boycott | refuse to buy goods |
Patriots | supported independence |
Valley Forge | patriot forces had a winter of terrible suffering. |
John Paul Jones | "I have not yet begun to fight!" |
Privateer | paid to use his ship to attack the British |
Canada | where loyalists fled after the war |
Guns and Ammunition | British troops were going after these in Concord. |
West Point | "Key to the Continent" |
Charleston | British felt it was a necessary port to fight in the West Indies. |
Galvez | Spanish Governor of Louisiana |
Treaty of Paris | ended the American Revolution |
Chesapeake Bay | bay at the battle of Yorktown |
Yorktown | King George III agreed to give the Americans their freedom after this battle |
National Leaders (Patrick Henry) | wanted liberty through separation with Great Britain. |
Loyalists (Oliver Wiswell) | felt that Great Britain needed to control the colonies or else they would fail. |
Women (Abigail Adams) | wanted the same rights as men, like their husbands (got it 100 years later) |
Traders (Thomas Paine) | wanted to separate from Great Britain because it would get more money for the Americans |
Slaves | wanted the same rights as all free men (got it 80 years later) |