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Loyalists
American colonists that remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britan durring the revolutionary War -
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Revolutionary War
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Treaty Of Paris-1763
signed on 10 February 1763 by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years War( French and Indian War).Signing of the treaty officially ended the Seven Years War. -
Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. In general, the Proclamation of 1763 was the initial and most visible sign that England was starting to take an interest in the United States again. Starting the Revolutionary War -
Abigail Adams
The wife of John Adams. The mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. And the second first lady of the United States. -
Stamp Act
A tex writen by the british parlement declaring that colonist would pay a tax on every peice of paper they used.The money collected by the stamp act was used to help pay the cost of defending and protecting the American Frontier. -
Quartering Act
A way of indirect taxing of colinist by having them house and feed Biritish soldiers. This led up to the boston tea party. -
Townshend Acts
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770 -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British Soldiers. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since british troops first appeared in Massachusetts. -
Boston Tea Party
Disguised as Indians, colonists destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax that the Americans had not authorized.The British government responded harshly and resulted in the American Revolution. -
Sons Of Liberty
an group of American patriots that started in the North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and work against the abuses of the British government. They are best known for the Boston Tea Party -
Intolerable Acts
the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights, causeing outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. The acts were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775. -
1st Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met early in the American Revolution.The Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being Georgia, which wanted British help with Indian problems on its frontier.The Congress met shortly to consider options, including an economic stop of British trade, rights and grievances, and petitioned King George the third for redress of those grievances -
Common Sense
a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Lexington and Concord
The First milistary engagments of the revolutionary war. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Paul Revere
An American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He affected the war by alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord -
Sam Adams
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. leader of the movement that became the American Revolution -
John Adams
the second president of the United States also a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain. -
Thomas Paine
he author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain -
Thomas Jefferson
an American Founding Father. the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States -
Patriots
Colonists that violently rebelled against the British rule durring the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independance
The daclaration of independance is a document stating that the thirteen American colonies declared independance from Britan -
Battle of Saratoga
Two battles that were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground. Are normally thought as a turning point in the war. -
Hessians
18th-century German soldiers payed by the Crown of the British Empire. About 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. -
Benedict Arnold
A general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army.When he was a a general on the American side, he got command of the fort at West Point, New York, and planned to give it to the British forces. After the plan was exposed he was commissioned into the British Army. -
Lord Cornwallis
Leader of the British Army that surrendered durring Yorktown.Last major land battle of the Revolutionary War -
Battle Of Yorktown
A battle fought by the combined groups of the American Continental Army and French Army over a British Army. The last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War -
George Washington
the first President of the United States.The commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Martha Custis Washington
the wife of George Washington. First first lady of the united states -
Treaty of Paris-1783
The treaty of paris ended the Revolutionary War against Britain and America
