Chapter 5 The American Revolution

Why were the colonist angry about the Stamp Act?

• The Stamp Act was unfair because the colonists had no representation in Parliament

• The Stamp Act taxed goods the colonists produce in America

• The Stamp Act should also apply to Native Americans

• The Stamp Act taxed the colonists land

Great Britain and the United States signed the ________________________________, officially ending the Revolutionary War.

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Paris

Members from the Continental Congress met with British official in Paris to ______________________, or reach an agreement, a peace treaty.

• Negotiate

• Declare War

• compromise

The French agreed to an ___________________________, a formal agreement of friendship between countries.

• partnership

• alliance

• friendship

Cornwallis decided to rest his troops at Yorktown, VA which is a _________________ or a piece of land nearly surrounded by water.

• island

• town

• peninsula

Many Patriot soldiers _________________________, or signed up for armed serviced

• enlisted

• fought

• retreated

To ___________________________________ is to move away from the enemy

• join

• fight

• retreat

The British hired German _____________________________, or soldiers who are paid to fight for another country.

• alliances

• enlisted

• mercenaries

The Declaration of Independence talks about people’s _____________________________, or freedoms that cannot be taken away.

• countries

• jobs, cars and personal properties

• rights

The colonist wanted _________________________________, or freedom from the rule by others, from Great Britain

• martial law

• independence

• alliance