United We Stand.Liberty Kids

A slang name that colonists called the British soldiers

• Redcoats

• Sons of Liberty

• Militia

• Boycott Boys

Colonists who opposed British rule over them;

They were the first ones to speak about separating from England

and form a new country - America.

• Redcoats

• Patriots

• Militia

• Boycott Boys

The refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods, as a way to protest.

• Intolerate

• repeal

• boycott

• trade

A group of ordinary citizens who train for battle

(the colonists were not a united country yet so they had no military;

fisherman, farmers, silversmiths, tailors, etc trained for battle)

• Soldiers

• Militia

• Parliament

• Redcoats

The representative form of government in England ( Great Britain) that meets and makes laws and decisions for the country;

this is similar to "Congress" in the United States

• Monarchy

• House of Representatives

• King George's Council

• Parliament

The British King and Parliament sent lots of soldiers over to the colonies to stop their protests and boycotts. Then they forced the coloniest to provide free housng and food for their soldiers. This is called...

• The Protest Act

• THe Boycott Act

• The Quartering Act

Representatives from most of the colonies met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to discuss the Intolerable Acts imposed on the colonies by England. Which statement is NOT true about what they decided to do.

• They asked the King and Parliament to stop taxing them

• They asked the King and Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts

• They agreed to boycott all trade with England until the Intolerable Acts were ended

• They started a military and put George Washington in charge of it.

"We are no longer Virginians, Pensylvanians, and New Yorkers.

I am no longer a New England man.

I am an American. We are Americans."

Who said these words at the First Continental Congress?

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

• Martha Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

Who was wife of the 2nd president, mother of the 6th president,

and a woman who helped rally Boston colonists to join the revolution to become independent from England?

• Martha Washington

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Abigail Adams

• Harriet Tubman