Vocabulary Terms SSUSH3 and SSUSH4

Who was the commander in chief during the American Revolution and the 1st President of the United States?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

During the Battle of _________________, Americans surprised Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner.

• Bunker's Hill

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• French and Indian War

• King Philip's War

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America.

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

King of England during the American Revolution

• King George

• King George II

• King George III

• King George IV

Stated that no colonists could settle in lands to the west of the Appalachian mountains-- made the colonists very upset.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Quartering Act

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

The action of the taxing authorities levying a tax.

• Taxation

• Boycott

• Petition

• Representation

a formal request for government action

• Petition

• Grievance

• Boycott

• Taxation