Copyright 2002 Bonnie Nizamis
Important people Important Locations Acts and laws Steps to Rev FINALFINAL
Name given to Colonial soldiers who could be ready to fight very quickly.
Minutemen 100
One of the slang term for a British soldier
lobsterback or redcoat 200
Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts
Sam Adams 300
Colonial Lawyer who defended the English soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
John Adams 400
King of England during the Revolution
King George III 500
City where the famous “massacre” occurred
Boston 100
Colony in which Boston is located
Massachusetts 200
Places where Colonial troops first fired on British soldiers
Lexington and Concord 300
Colony in which the towns of Lexington and Concord are located
Massachusetts 400
City where the first Continental Congress met
Philadelphia 500
Act that required a tax on all written documents, making the colonists furious
Stamp Act 100
Act that put a tax on all imported sugar products
Sugar Act 200
American colonists who thought they were lucky to be a part of the British colonies and under British protection. Therefore, they remained loyal to Britain in the American Revolution.
loyalists 300
Term that is described as – the mother country has colonies in order to increase it’s wealth by making money off of the colonies.
mercantilism 400
Law, passed in 1763, that forbade English Colonists from moving across the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of
Refusal by the colonists to buy British Goods
boycott 100
Organizations of patriots who did what they could to oppose British rule in America
Sons of Liberty 200
Slogan about taxes that influenced many colonists to rebel against Great Britain
“No taxation without representation” 300
Law-making body in England
Parliament 400
A plan of action used to reach a goal
strategy 500
Event that British hoped to pay for by raising Colonists’ taxes
French and Indian War FINAL