The Revolutionary War

A settlement of people who have left their country to settle in another area owned by their home country.

• colony

• tax

• Stamp Act

• colonists

An amount of money citizens give the government.

• colony

• tax

• colonists

• Stamp Act

Goods coming into a country.

• tax

• export

• import

• colony

A 1765 British law that required all newspapers and other paper goods to have a stamp on it, which cost money.

• Tea Act

• Water Act

• Stamp Act

• Taxes

A British law that taxed all tea, and forced colonists to only buy tea from British merchants.

• Stamp Act

• Taxes

• Water Act

• Tea Act

An event on December 16th, 1773, in which a group of Bostonians destroyed a shipment of British tea.

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Revolutionary War

• The French and Indian War

• The Boston Massacre

A collection of weapons and military equipment.

• colony

• arsenal

• tools

• Boston Tea Party

A document traditionally adopted on July 4th, 1776, that declared the Thirteen Colonies as a separate nation.

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Boston Massacre

• The French and Indian War

People not in the military.

• civilian

• colonist

• native american

• redcoats

Left without permission.

• crime

• battle

• colonist

• desert