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America Revolution
Term | Definition |
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Someone's point of view of an event | Bias |
Who Fought in the French and Indian War | Great Britain against the French |
What was a result of the Americans winning Saratoga | French enters war on American side |
Benjamin Franklin's plan to organize and untie colonies during the French and Indian War | Albany Plan of Union |
What are 3 unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence | Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness |
Jamestown, Virginia Settled | 1607 |
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army | George Washington |
Peace Treaty that ended French and Indian War | Treaty of Paris, 1763 |
English King during the American Revolution | King George III |
Conflict over who rules the Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War |
Supported the Colonies | Patriot |
Supported the King | Loyalists |
Last attempt at peace with King George | Olive Branch Petition |
Convinced France to join the Americans in the American Revolution | Benjamin Franklin |
"Shot heard around the world" | Lexington/Concord |
Colonists Response to Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
Colonists' name for the Coercive Acts | Intolerable Acts |
First major battle of American Revolution | Battle of Bunker Hill |
Declaration of Independence signed | 1776 |
Turning point battle of American Revolution | Battle of Saratoga |
Peace treaty that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
Document informing the world of American Liberty | Declaration of Independence |
Colonists were forbidden to settle west of an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
Redcoats shot 5 Boston citizens | Boston Massacre |
Examples of English Taxation | Sugar Act, Tea Act, Stamp Act, etc. |
"No Taxation without Representation" | American Revolution |
Founder of the "Sons of Liberty" | Samuel Adams |
Tobacco, Rum, Molasses, Slaves | Products of the Triangles Trade |
Rights that no man can take away | Unalienable Rights |
Author of Common Sense and The Crisis | Thomas Paine |
British response to the Boston Tea Party | Coercive Acts |
Primary Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Cornwallis and British surrender at | Yorktown |