American Revolution Review

This was the slogan the colonists used to protest the new taxes, especially the Stamp Act

• No Stamps, No Paper!

• No Taxation Without Representation!

• No Sugar! No Paper! No Tea!

Taxation without Representation means

• Being taxed without having a voice in government

• Being taxed without legal representation

• Being taxed without a visit to the hospital

One goal of the Declaration of Independence (explained in the Preamble) was

• to establish a new monarchy

• to start another war

• to explain why the colonists needed to be free from a British rule

• to outline a new economic system

The Patriot term for Loyalist was

• Patriot

• Fool

• Tory

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state.

• Common Sense

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

• George Washington

• Nathanael Greene

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Baron von Steuben

This document ends the American Revolution, and recognizes the former British colonies as an independent nation.

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

Colonists who WANTED to FIGHT for independence were known as:

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Communists
• Minutemen

Colonists who did NOT want to rebel against England were called:

• Patriots
• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Socialists