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Road To Amer. Rev.
8-2.1 / 8-2.2
Question | Answer |
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1765- Tax placed on all printed material; newspapers, playing cards, legal documents. | Stamp Act |
1773- required the colonists to only buy tea from the East India Company (English Company) | Tea Act |
Group of American colonists who protested British tax policies | Sons of Liberty |
1773- Colonists reaction to the Tea Act, this protest spread throughout the colonies | Boston Tea Party |
1764- Tax on Sugar | Sugar Act |
Wealthy merchant and Leader of Charleston’s Son’s of Liberty, spoke out against the Stamp Act. | Christopher Gadsden |
Listed the reasons why the colonies wanted to break away from England | Declaration of Independence (DOI) |
-Arthur Middleton -Thomas Lynch Jr -Thomas Heyward Jr -Edward Rutledge | Signers of DOI from SC |
The army of the American colonies – George Washington was the commander | Continental Army |
American colonists who supported Revolution against Britain. AKA Whigs, Rebels | Patriots |
American colonists who sided with Britain during the Revolution. AKA Tories | Loyalists |
An irregular war carried on by independent soldiers (Hit-and-Run Tactics) | Guerilla Warfare |
Guerilla warfare fighter for the Patriots who fought the British in the Low Country of SC Francis Marion | Swamp Fox |
Guerrilla warfare fighter for the Patriots who fought the British, fiery and impulsive Thomas Sumter | The Gamecock |
“The Indian Fighter” Guerilla Warfare fighter who fought the British in the Upcountry. Andrew Pickens | The Wizard Owl |
Guerrilla warfare fighters during the Revolution who used hit and run tactics against the British Army | Partisans |
A Volunteer Army | Militia |