AMERICAN REVOLUTION

To refuse to buy or use certain goods or services

• siege

• prohibit

• boycott

• traitor

The army of the Thirteen Colonies in the Revolutionary-era United States

• Red Coats

• Continental Army

• minutemen

• British Army

A war that took place from 1754-1763 that led Great Britain to start taxing the Colonists (to pay them back for the war expenses)

• The Civil War

• Revolutionary War

• French and Indian War

• The French Revolution

A colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the King and the British (England's) cause.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Englishman

• Traitor

A colonist who favored independence from Great Britain and war against Britain

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Ally

• War Hawk

Why did the British put a tax on paper materials in the colonies? (The Stamp Act)

• The British did not like the colonists

• The British would use that money to buy weapons

• King George needed money to pay the soldiers

• The British were in debt because of the French/Indian war

What was the name of the group of protesters that formed in Boston in response to the Stamp Act (and sometimes threatened violence to frighten tax collectors)?

• The Tea Tax

• Patrick Henry

• The Sons of Liberty

• The British Parliament

This event happened when a crowd of protesters threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers, who then fired into the crowd.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• 4th of July

What was the name of the event in Boston on December 1773, where people dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest?

• The Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Revolutionary War

• The battle of Bunker Hill

What was the name of the new laws that the British imposed on the colonies, as a result of The Boston Tea Party?

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Townshend Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• The First Continental Congress