Revolutionary War Study Guide

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• Provisional peace treaty signed after Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Tax that the British government placed on newspapers, books, and documents sold in the colonies

• Patriots

• Colonists who could be ready in a minute to fight the British

• Minutemen

• Colonists who fought against British rule

• Stamp Act

• Rode on horseback from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn that the Redcoats were coming

• Paul Revere

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• Colonists who remained loyal to the King during the American Revolution

• Sons of Liberty

• Civilian soldiers who are trained to fight but not part of the regular army

• Loyalists

• The government of Great Britain, includes the king, the House of Commons, and the prime minister

• Militias

• Secret group of colonists founded to protest the Stamp Act

• Redcoats

• Nickname for British soldiers because of their red uniform coats

• Parliament

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• The killing of five men by British soldiers on March 5, 1770

• Continental Congress

• The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during the war

• Boston Massacre

• Boston citizens raided three British ships and dumped chests of tea in the harbor to protest tea tax

• Boston Tea Party

In the ________________, the French and the British fought over the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Civil War

• French and Indian War

• Spanish War

• Battle of Yorktown

During this historical event, the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Saratoga

• Declaration of Independence

During the ____________, colonists threw stones and snowballs at British soldiers, and British soldiers fired into the crowd.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

The _______________ forced the colonists to pay for a stamp for almost every paper document they bought.

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

The _______________ was a secret group that formed to protest the Stamp Act and other unfair taxes.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Benjamin Franklin

• Proclamation of 1763

• Sons of Liberty

____________ was the leader of England during the American Revolution.

• George Washington

• King George III

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

The ___________________ prevented the colonists from settling in the land west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act