1. Define/Identify the following: BOSTON MASSACRE—
BOSTON TEA PARTY—

2. Boston Massacre - Encounter between British troops and a group of citizens protesting the Townshend Acts. British troops fired into the crowd, killing five citizens.
Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773-protest of British tax on tea imported to the colonies.

3. Define/Identify the following: Committee of Correspondence--
Common Sense--

4. Common Sense--
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which argued it was foolish for the colonies to be governed by a country so far away and that the colonies should have self-rule.
Committee of Correspondence--
An organization that used meetings, letters, and pamphlets to spread political ideas through the colonies.

6. Define/Identify the following: Unalienable Rights--
Proclamation of

7. Unalienable Rights--
Basic rights that cannot be taken away from the people such as
“life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” These rights are in the
Declaration of Independence.
Proclamation of
Following the end of the French & Indian War, King George III of Britain forbid all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

8. Define/Identify the following: Declaration of Independence--
First Continental Congress-Philadelphia, Sept

9. Declaration of Independence Document that declared the American colonies independent from England; written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776
First Continental Congress
A political body assembled to represent American interests and challenge British control. They voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed and called upon each colony to establish a colonial militia.

10. French and Indian War--
Lexington/Concord--

11. War between Great Britain and France.
Britain wins and gains French Canada.
Britain begins to tax the colonies to help
Pay the war debt. Eventually leading to
the American Revolution.
1775-opening shots of the American Revolution

12. Loyalists— Minutemen--
Militia—

13. American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
A group of civilians
trained to fight in
emergencies
Companies of civilian
soldiers who boasted
that they were ready
to fight on a minute’s
notice

14. Parliament— Saratoga— Second Continental Congress--

15. British legislature A political body assembled to represent
American interests and challenge British
control. Group voted to declare
independence from Great Britain and later
wrote the Articles of Confederation which
was a plan of government for the colonies.
American troops win a
victory; turning point of
the American Revolution as
France comes to the aid of
the colonists

16. Self-determination— Treason— Treaty of Paris 1783--

17. a a crime against the government
Right of a people to decide their
future political status in respect to
form of government
Officially ended American Revolution; British recognized
US as a free and independent
country and gave US land to
Mississippi River

18. Valley Forge 1777-1778— Yorktown 1781--

19. Washington and the American
army lose Philadelphia and
spend a horrible winter there
Washington forces the surrender of
Cornwallis thus ending the
American Revolution