The United States Breaks Away

To owe money to someone

• Rebel

• Representation

• Independent

• Debt

To violently go against and oppose the government

• Independent

• Rebel

• Co-exist

• Refugee

Someone who flees their country because of war or other bad circumstance

• Refugee

• Escapist

• Rebel

• Patriot

Which of these is one of the early causes of rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies?

• Americans tried to invade British North America

• Britain raised taxes on the colonists

Why did Britain raise taxes on the Colonists?

• They owed money because the Seven Years War was expensive

• They wanted to buy the Hudson's Bay Company

This group of people supported the rebellion and American independence.

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• French

• Métis

This group of people did not support the rebellion and wanted to stay British.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Americans

• Mi'Kmaq

The American revolution divided people into two groups:

• French and British

• Colonists and Europeans

• Patriots and Loyalists

• Refugees and Citizens

What event triggered Loyalists into leaving the Thirteen Colonies?

• new representative government

• George Washington's death

• Jailing of Patriots

• Tarring and feathering of Loyalists

Who were afraid that the arrival of the Loyalists would threaten their culture?

• German Mennonites

• British North Americans

• French Canadiens