Founder of the Sons of Liberty from

Massachusetts.

When British soldiers killed 5 colonists outside

the Custom House in Boston in 1770. Sons of Liberty exaggerated the event into a massacre trying to earn support.

A reaction to the Tea Act of 1773. Sons of Liberty

dumped British East India Company Tea into Boston

Harbor. It led to the Intolerable Acts.

Refusal to buy certain products. This was the most successful

form of colonial protest.

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776.

Persuasive essay attracted many people to

the patriot cause.

The government of the colonies during the Revolutionary War.

This document, mainly written by Thomas

Jefferson, proclaimed colonial independence from Great Britain in

1776.

Meeting of colonists in Philadelphia in 1774. Said that only colonial

assemblies could tax the colonies. Urged the colonies to boycott

goods.

Famous printer and scientist. Published

Poor Richard’s Almanac. Delegate to

the Constitutional Convention.

War between France and Britain in the colonies from 1754-1763. Started in the

Ohio River Valley. End result was that Britain got the French territory in North

America including Canada.

When a nation is free from the control of another nation.

British reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Closed

the Port of Boston, established a new Quartering Act and

limited town meetings in Massachusetts to one a

year.

Principal author of the Declaration of

Independence. President whose major

accomplishment was the Louisiana Purchase in

1803.

Local volunteer soldiers in the

colonies, fighting for American

independence.

Peace offering to the King after Bunker Hill

by the Second Continental Congress.

King George never actually read it.

Lawmaking body of Great Britain.

Act that said colonists could not settle west of

the Appalachian Mountains. Settlers

ignored this act.

Providing housing for soldiers.

American patriotic society formed to

protest British taxes. Many of its members lived in and around

Boston.

1765 British tax on paper documents such as wills, diplomas and

playing cards.

1765 meeting in New York City.

Representatives from 9 colonies gathered to protest against the

Stamp Act and said only colonial legislatures could

tax the colonies.

Tax on tea in 1773. It actually lowered the

price of tea. Americans complained of “No taxation without

representation.”

Treaty at the end of the French and Indian War. Britain gained most of the French territory in North

America.