American Revolution Review

The treaty that ended the American Revolution in 1783 and recognized the United States as an independent nation.

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• American Revolution

• Declaration of Independence

• Boston Tea Party

An event in 1770 where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, increasing tensions between the colonies and Britain.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• American Revolution

• Sons of Liberty

Those who wanted to stay out of the conflict between the American colonists and the British, taking neither side.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Neutralists

• Sons of Liberty

The official document written in 1776, declaring the American colonies' independence from British rule.

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• American Revolution

• Neutralists

The term used for American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution.

• Minutemen

• Neutralists

• Loyalists

• Patriots

A significant event in 1773 where American colonists threw British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

• American Revolution

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Civil War

Colonists who were ready to respond quickly to a call to arms, often serving as a local militia.

• minutemen

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Neutralists

The group of American colonists who supported independence from British rule and were willing to fight for it.

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Neutralists

The period of conflict and war between the American colonies and Great Britain, lasting from 1775 to 1783.

• American Revolution

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

A group of colonists who opposed British taxation and other forms of control over the American colonies, often using protest and boycotts.

• Patriots

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalists

• Neutralists