Revolutionary War

Phrase that expresses why colonists hated British taxes

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Give me liberty or give me death

• No taxation without representation

• all men are created equal

Coercive Acts - shut down port, no town meetings, house solders, no charter

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Harbor Act

Colonial militia who were ready to fight at a minute's notice

• Patriots

• Continental Army

• minutemen

• militia

Group that chose George Washington as the leader of the Continental Army

• Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Committees of Correspondence

Colonial army made up of private citizens

• militia

• minutemen

• Patriots

• Loyalists

Group of Patriots that used violence against tax collectors; responsible for Boston Tea Party

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Libery

• Minutemen

• Militia men

Tax requested by Prime Minister Greenville to pay for the French and Indian War

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

Meeting of colonial leaders to ask king to correct problems and write Declaration of Independence

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Committee of Correspondence

• Congress

Tax requiring a stamp on purchases of paper goods; first direct tax on colonists

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

Group of people that made the biggest contribution to the war efford

• women

• militias

• minutemen

• soldiers