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French and Indian War This was caused due to the British and the French competing for land in North America, specifically the Ohio Valley.

Proclamation of 1763 This was part of the end of the French and Indian War. It drew a boundary along the Appalachian Mountains and forced the colonists to stay East of the boundary. The British taxed the colonists to pay for the enforcement of the act. This makes the colonists mad, and they start claiming “Taxation without Representation!”

Boston Massacre According the British or “Loyalist” view, it was a riot that got out of control and the soldiers were acting in self-defense. According to the Patriot view, the soldiers were murderers who killed innocent people.

The Stamp Act This put a tax on legal documents. All legal documents had to have a stamp that proved they paid the tax.

Stamp Act Congress Leaders from all the colonies got together and wrote a letter to King George, asking him to get rid of the Stamp Act. The King ignored the letter

Loyalists and Patriots Loyalists are colonists who don’t want revolution, who are “loyal” to the British crown. Patriots are colonists who want rebellion and want to break away from England.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” This was a pamphlet that was popular in the colonies during the 1760’s. It urged the colonists to rebel against England, and it said it would be the natural thing to do. Paine said that the colonists had enough people to get it done

John Locke and “Natural Rights.” Locke believed that people were BORN with natural rights, like life, liberty, and happiness. He said that it was the government’s job to protect those rights. He also said that if a government did not protect those rights, then it was the people’s right to rebel against that government.

The Declaration of Independence. The people who signed this Declaration were committing treason, because they were breaking away from the British crown, formally, which is a treasonous offence. They were also “taking up arms” against the British army, another treasonous offence.

Who wrote it? Mainly Thomas Jefferson, but he had help from John Adams and Ben Franklin.

Saratoga is a turning point! The win by the Patriots convinced the French to join the Revolution on our side. This helped us eventually beat the British. The British lost because of poor communication between their commanders, three were supposed to show up, only one did.

The Olive Branch Petition Even as tensions were rising between the Patriots and the British Crown, the Colonial leaders wrote “The Olive Branch Petition,” which was a letter to the King to propose a peace between the two sides. The King ignored this letter and the Revolution continued.

Yorktown This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War. General Cornwalis was in charge of the British troops at Yorktown. He was defeated by George Washington and LaFayette.

Mercantilism A “mother” country, like England, gets colonies to supply them natural resources. The “mother” country then turns those natural resources into manufactured goods, and sells them to the colonies. The colonies provide a market for the mother country, as well as a source of natural resources.

Intolerable Acts After the Boston Tea Party, the British enacted the Intolerable Acts. It closed the port of Boston and put the city on a military enforced lockdown. It cut Boston off from trade with the rest of the colonies.

Lexington and Concord The British received word that the rebels had stashed weapons in Lexington and Concord, and they marched up from Boston to get those weapons from them. A militia was waiting for them at Lexington and that’s where the first shots rang out in the Revolutionary War.

Problems at Valley Forge Soldiers faced a lack of clothing, lack of adequate food, disease, and a lack of pay during the winter at Valley Forge.

They now stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. The Treaty of Paris This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and doubled the size of the American Colonies. They now stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.

The British left Boston and sailed for New York to take over the city. Battle of New York. The British left Boston and sailed for New York to take over the city. Washington tried to defend the city, but he failed miserably. The British take over New York.

Battle of Trenton This was when Washington crossed the Delaware and fought the Hessians. It provided a huge morale boost for the colonial army.

Yorktown Washington faked out the British up in New York, making them think he was going to attack, then he marched his troops south to Yorktown. The French Navy sailed south to Yorktown. The Americans and French had Cornwallis surrounded at Yorktown, and they won.