american revolution

This American victory was the turning point in the American Revolutionary war and encouraged the French to join forces with them (the Americans).
(Turning point is a big change in a situation)

• Saratoga
• Yorktown
• Bunker Hill
• Lexington and Concord

The ___________ fought hard to gain America's freedom from the king of England.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• freedom

• treaty

Proclamation of 1763

• A law created by King George to encourage colonists to stop smuggling goods.

• King George tells colonists they can't move west past the Appalachian Mountains.

• Gives England a monopoly on a one particular good.

• Series of laws passed by the British to control the colonists and punish them for the Boston Tea Party

The Stamp Act (1765)

• Gives England a monopoly on a one particular good.

• Representatives from across the colonies meet in Philadelphia to discuss their opposition to British Policy

• Taxes on many imported goods.

• Tax on all printed materials (wills, newspapers, playing cards, etc).

The Boston Tea Party (December 17, 1773)

• Tax on all printed materials (wills, newspapers, playing cards, etc).

• Patriots protest British taxes by destroying a large quantity of a particular good.

• Unites the 13 colonies for the first time ever.

• A law created by King George to encourage colonists to stop smuggling goods.

Intolerable Acts (1774)

• Series of laws passed by the British to control the colonists and punish them for the Boston Tea Party

• Representatives from across the colonies meet in Philadelphia to discuss their opposition to British Policy

• A law created by King George to encourage colonists to stop smuggling goods.

• Patriots taunt British soldiers. Soldiers panic and shoot 5 people.

Continental Congress (1774)

• Representatives from across the colonies meet in Philadelphia to discuss their opposition to British Policy

• Patriots protest British taxes by destroying a large quantity of a particular good.

• King George tells colonists they can't move west past the Appalachian Mountains.

• Taxes on many imported goods.

A small army made up of ordinary citizens who are available to fight in an emergency.

• Patriot

• Militia

• Tyrant

• Loyalist

To refuse to buy one or more goods from a certain source, usually as means of protest.

• Economics

• Boycott

• Propaganda

• Politics

Relating to the way a country uses its resources or money.

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Economics

• Propaganda