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

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

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

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Stamp Act Congress

• Committees of Correspondence

series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

• Sugar Act

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Colonists

• Settlers

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

• British

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Colonists

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Bill of Rights