1. Visual vocabulary
American Revolution

2. Stamp Act
British tax on all paper goods, colonists boycott and this act is repealed

3. Quartering Act
Colonists are forced to house British troops in their homes

4. Townshend Acts
British places tax on glass, lead, paint, and tea for colonists; repealed except tea

5. Tea Act
tax that gave British East India Company a monopoly over tea in the colonies

6. Intolerable Acts
act designed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, by closing Boston Harbor

7. Sons of Liberty
secret society that organized protests and sometimes resorted to violence

8. Propaganda
- ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion

9. Committees of Correspondence
– group that wrote about the grievances to protest against the British

10. Patriots
– American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolution

11. Continental Army
– militia created by the Second Continental Congress to defend the American colonies from Great Britain

12. Second Continental Congress
– meeting of colonial delegates that created the Olive Branch Petition and established the Continental Army

13. Loyalist
– colonists that sided with Britain in the American Revolution, Tories

14. Olive Branch Petition
– final request for peace written to King George III asking that Britain protect the colonists’ rights

15. Common Sense
– pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain

16. Declaration of Independence
– document written to declare the colonies free from British rule

17. Preamble
– introduction to the Declaration of Independence