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Treaty of Paris
A treaty signed at the conclusion of the French and Indian war. This treaty was signed by Britan, France, and Spain and it split up the land of North America with all these countries. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was a proclamation that prohibited colonists settling past the Appalachin mountains range. -
Abigail Adams
The wife of John Adams, the second president. Her husband often refered to her for military and government advice. -
Stamp Act
A direct tax put in order by the British government. It required that most prinited documents must be prinited on stamped paper manufactered in London. -
Quartering Act
This act forced the gorvernment of the colonies to provide shelter for any slodiers sent to America by Britan. It also states that all colonists must provide food for the said soldiers. -
Hessians
German soldeirs hired by Great Britan to fight agaisnt the rebel colonists in the SAmerican Revolution. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was one of the founding fathers of the united states. He was against the British in the war. -
Townshend Act
A series of acts passed by the British government. They consisted of the revunue act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. -
Boston Massacre
British soldeirs had been stationed in Boston in order to enforce the aw in Boston. A mob of colonists formed and some of the soldiers shot without order into the crown, killing five and injring six. -
Sons of Liberty
A gorup of American patriots that fought for the colonists rights in America. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest towards the British government. Man men from the colonies dressed up as Indian men destroyed an entire shipment of tea as a response to the British's tea taxes. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws enforced by the British as a reaction to the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
A convention of delagtes from the colonies that met up in Philedelphia to respond to Britan's intolerable acts. -
Loyalists
American colonists who stayed loyal to the British empire and also fought on their side. -
Patriots
Colonists in Americaq who rebelled or fought against Britan in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
These battles were the first millartary conflicts in the revolutionary war. The first shots were fired around sunrise in Lexington. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere played an important role in the Battle of Lexington and Concord. He was thev first person to spot the British troops. -
George Washington
The comander in cheif of the American army during the revolution. Also the first president of the USA after revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
A document written by the Continental Congress that announced the thirteen colonies as independent states rather thaqn colonies of Britan. -
John Adams
He was one of the founding fathers, first vice president, and second president. -
Thomas Paine
An american english activist. He published two highly influencial documents that inspired the patriotic colonists. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was an American founding father and he was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. -
Battle of Saratoga
Are considered a truning point in the revolutionary war. There were two battles, fought 18 days apart on September 19th and October 7th in 1777. -
Martha Curtis Washington
George Washingtons wife. She was often thought to not be involved in the American Revolution but she really spent most of her time with her husband in the army camps during the war. -
Benedict Arnold
He was a general in the American Revolution He was orrginally a general for the American rebels, but switched to the British army. -
Battle of Yorktown
In this battle, the French and American troops allied to beat Britian in the last major land battle of the revolutionary war. -
Lord Cornwallis
He was a British army officer and was the one who gave the surrender in Yorktown. -
Treaty of Paris
This was the document that eneded the American Revolutionary War.
