Unit 2 Vocab: Revolutionary War

Required the colonists to print newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, etc., on paper bearing a special brand.

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Committee of Five

• French and Indian War

Wove homespun fabric to make clothes and other goods so the colonists would not need to rely on British imports.

• John Locke

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• General Cornwallis

Ended the Revolutionary War and gave the United States its independence from Great Britain.

• Battle of Yorktown

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Treaty of Paris 1763

Surrendered to George Washington after three weeks of fighting at Yorktown.

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• General Cornwallis

A conflict between Great Britain and France over the Ohio River valley with Great Britain winning.

• Committee of Five

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• French and Indian War

Series of acts that allowed British officials accused of major crimes to be tried in England and forced the colonists to house British troops on their property.

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

Last battle of the war and the American Revolution came to an end.

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Saratoga

• Valley Forge

• Battle of Yorktown

A British philosopher who believed that all individuals naturally possess certain rights regardless of status; ideas influenced the language of the Declaration of Independence.

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

• General Cornwallis

• John Locke

Ended the French and Indian War and forced France to turn over control of Canada to Great Britain

• Committee of Five

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Treaty of Paris 1763

Group of men appointed by the Continental Congress to write the Declaration of Independence.

• Common Sense

• Committees of Correspondence

• Committee of Five

• Sons of Liberty