American History Midterm Exam

Sons of Liberty - extremist group arguing for the rights of colonists

Boston Massacre - British soldiers killed 5 colonists

Boston Tea Party - colonists dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston tea into Boston Harbor to protest Tea Act Harbor

Patriots - colonists who supported independence from Great Britain

Loyalists/Tories - American colonists who favored the king

King George III - King of England

Samuel Adams - leader of Sons of Liberty and propaganda master

Paul Revere - "Midnight Ride" warning colonists of Redcoats coming/engraved Boston Massacre

Patrick Henry - "Give me liberty, or give me death"

John Hancock - Second Continental Congress President/largest signature on Declaration of Independence