Module 4 Vocab (Modified)

American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he signed the Declaration of Independence.

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Battle of Yorktown

• Patriots

• Loyalists

a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

the last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general Charles Cornwallis’s surrender to the Patriots in Virginia

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Yorktown

• Boston Tea Party

an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• George Washington

• Battle of Bunker Hill

Revolutionary War commander of Marion’s Brigade, a group of guerrilla soldiers in South Carolina that used surprise raids against British communications and supply lines

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• Francis Marion

• Thomas Paine

a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Marquis De Lafayette

Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War.

• Marques De Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• Baron Fredriech Von Steuben

a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Yorktown

French statesman and officer who viewed the American Revolution as important to the world, he helped finance the Revolution and served as major general.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Marques De Lafayette

• Baron Fred Von Steuben