American Revolution BEGINS

Civil Disobedience

• a point of view

• a message used to influence the public

• the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust.

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists emptied hundreds of tea chests into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation. This is known as

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Stamp Act Boycott

• The French and Indian War

What was the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• To explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain.

• To create the laws and policies of the new United States

• To make a peace treaty between the United States and Great Britain

• To explain the boycott of the Stamp Act

 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

• The name of a Patriot group that worked toward independence

• Rights possessed ONLY by the King of England

• Three unalienable rights, or rights that can’t be taken away or denied (according to the Declaration of Independence)

Sons of Liberty/ Daughters of Liberty

• This was a secret group of Patriot colonists established to oppose British rule in colonial America

• This was a group of Loyalists that wanted to keep the colonies under British rule

• This was a group of British soldiers

• This was a group of Native Americans that fought for freedom

Loyalists

• colonists that rebelled against British rule in America

• colonists that supported British rule in America; they were opposed to the Revolution

• British soldiers that were stationed in America

• Native Americans that supported French rule in America

Patriots

• colonists that rebelled against British rule in America

• colonists that supported British rule in America; they were opposed to the Revolution

• British soldiers that were stationed in America

• Native Americans that supported French rule in America

Continental Army

• The army of the Thirteen Colonies and the Revolutionary-era United States

• The British Army units that were in America

• The Native American soldiers fighting for freedom

• The French army

A 1775 meeting of representatives from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War

• Second Continental Congress

• Declaration of Independence

• The Stamp Act

• The British Parliament

Man who was selected to be the leader of the Continental Army and became the first president of the United States

• Sam Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington