| 660166897 | debt | money that is owed | |
| 660166898 | congress | a formal meeting | |
| 660166899 | repeal | to cancel | |
| 660166900 | effigy | life size puppet | |
| 660166901 | boycott | to refuse to use or buy something | |
| 660166902 | tariff | a tax | |
| 660166903 | massacre | killing of many people | |
| 660166904 | quarter | to give food and shelter to | |
| 660166905 | martial law | controlled by military | |
| 660166906 | Patriot | a person who didn't side with the british | |
| 660166907 | Loyalist | A person who sided with the british | |
| 660166908 | neutral | can't choose between sides | |
| 660166909 | militia | volunteer army | |
| 660166910 | continental army | an army of paid soliders | |
| 660166911 | petition | a written request | |
| 660166912 | independence | freedom from rule by others | |
| 660166913 | rights | freedoms | |
| 660166914 | treason | a crime of fighting against ones own country | |
| 660166915 | mercenary | soliders who were paid to fight for another country | |
| 660166916 | retreat | to move away | |
| 660166917 | morale | spirits | |
| 660166918 | enlist | to sign up | |
| 660166919 | alliance | an agreement | |
| 660166920 | strategy | a plan | |
| 660166921 | negotiate | to reach an agreement on | |
| 660166922 | King George 111 | british king during the revolutionary era | |
| 660166923 | Patrick Henry | a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies. He opposed the Stamp Act,and said,"give me libraty or give me death.' | |
| 660166924 | Mercy Otis Warren | New England woman who wrote many works. These included a history of the revolution, a play, and poems One of America's first writers. She prpmpted opposition to the british. | |
| 660166925 | Crispus attucks | once of the 5 colonists killed in the Boston Massacre. Atticus was a runaway slave who it is said led the protest against the Townshend Acts that resulted in the bloody conflict with the British soldiers. | |
| 660166926 | John Adams | Lawyer who defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial. He believed in "innocent until proven guilty." In spite of these actions, he supported colonial independence. | |
| 660166927 | Samuel Adams | Samuel Adams played a key role in the defense of colonial rights. He had been a leader of the Sons of Liberty and suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence. Adams was crucial in spreading the principle of colonial rights throughout New England and is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.. | |
| 660166928 | Paul Revere | American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818) (express riders) | |
| 660166929 | John Hancock | American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress | |
| 660166930 | George Washington | Virginian, patriot, general, and president. Lived at Mount Vernon. Led the Revolutionary Army in the fight for independence. First President of the United States. | |
| 660166931 | Thomas Paine | Wrote "Common Sense" | |
| 660166932 | Thomas Jefferson | He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | |
| 660166933 | Ethan Allen | led the Green Mt. boys who took the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga | |
| 660166934 | Henry Knox | In 1775 George Washington ordered him, the nation's first secreatry of war, to bring the British artillery back to the siege of Boston that was captured at Fort Ticonderoga. | |
| 660166935 | Nathan Hale | a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British | |
| 660166936 | John Burgoyne | the British general who captured Fort Ticonderoga from the Americans but lost at the battle of Saratoga | |
| 660166937 | Frederick Von Steuben | Who: German officer that helped make up for the shortage of leaders in America
What: Arrived at Valley Forge and trained American army into a "formidable fight force."
When: 1778
Results: Boosted troops moral and fighting skill. | |
| 660166938 | Mary Ludwig Haynes | story has it, that when her husband was injured , she took his place in battle firing canons at British ( also probably a Molly Pitcher= women who carried water to soldiers on the battlefield | |
| 660166939 | Deborah Sampson | worked as spy for army, even dressed in mens clothes and secretly joined army, fought in several battles before anyone discovered she was a women | |
| 660166940 | Phyllis Wheatley | a former slave, wrote poetry about colonists' struggle for freedom and spoke out against slavery. | |
| 660166941 | Abigail Adams | wife of John Adams,believed in independence and rights for women, wrote her husband letters while he was at the Second Continental Congress | |
| 660166942 | Nathanael Greene | commander of American Army in South, avoided open battles, his troops attacked and then retreated again and again, forced British to chase the Patriots | |
| 660166943 | George Rogers Clark | American who captured Fort Vincennes, which is present day Indiana. | |
| 660166944 | John Paul Jones | "i have not yet begun to fight", American Sea Captain, attacked a British Ship, and won the fight. | |
| 660166945 | General Cornwallis | British general who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. | |
| 660166946 | Benjamin Franklin | in 1782 helped negotiate the a peace treaty- The Treaty of Paris | |
| 661749304 | Stamp Act | A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards. | |
| 661749305 | Townshend Acts | new law to control British colonies that placed a tariff or tax on goods hat colonists imported from Britian( paper, wool, glass, paint, and lead) | |
| 661749306 | Daughters of Liberty | Groups of American women patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods. they wove their own cloth-so they would not buy British wool | |
| 661749307 | Sons of Liberty | Secret societies formed to protest new taxes passed by Parliament. Led the Boston Tea Party and threatened tax collectors. | |
| 661749308 | Boston Massacre | a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. ( 5 colonists were killed) (Crispus Attucks was killed here) | |
| 661749309 | Boston Tea Party | A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. | |
| 661749310 | Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British:
1) the colonists had to quarter= give food and water to) British Troops
2) Colony of Massachusetts was put under marital law. Which meant it was controlled by the military
3)British navy ships blockaded Boston Harbor. The port would stay closed until colonists paid for tea they destroyed | |
| 661749311 | Declaration of Independence | This document was
adopted on July 4, 1776. It
established the 13 American colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the
majority of this document. | |
| 661749312 | Quartering Act | Act which required colonies to provide food and lodging for British troops, ? part of Intolerable Acts | |
| 661749313 | Paul Revere's Ride | Revere (and Dawes and Prescott) Ride through the town yelling "The British are coming! Signals were sent out to the military. raced west from Boston to worn everyone British were coming, was captured by British troops but others reached Concord | |
| 661749314 | Lexington and Concord | April 8, 1775: Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate colonial weapons and arrest Adam, and Hancock; April 19, 1775: 70 armed militia face British at Lexington (shot heard around the world); British retreat to Boston, suffer nearly 300 casualties along the way (concord) | |
| 661749315 | Fort Ticonderoga | patriots led by Ethan Allen surprise an outpost on Lake Champlain and capture cannon for the Americans | |
| 661749316 | Crossing the Delaware | In December 1776 Washington secretly led his troops across the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on the Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner. | |
| 661749317 | Battles of Trenton and Princeton | Washington crossed Delaware, surprised Hessians at Trenton, went on to win at Princeton...gave new hope to Americans after defeats in New York, Vindicated Washington as general-in-chief after his defeats in New York; Improved American morale and patriotism; Princeton- follow up to battle of Trenton, limited colonial victory, allowed Washington to boost morale and troops | |
| 661749318 | Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England by taking control of the Hudson River, and, most importantly, showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy, Great Britain. | |
| 661749319 | Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton, Steuben comes and trains troops | |
| 661749320 | Treaty of Paris | treaty signed by Great Britian and United States that finally ended the war | |
| 661749321 | Battle of Yorktown | final battle of the war, in which French and American forces led by George Washington defeated British General Cornwallis | |
