American Revolution Key Concepts

Religious differences

Control over colonial land

Disagreements about tea prices

Arguments over who would be king

Drink tea

Move west past the Appalachian Mountains

Print newspapers

Elect their own leaders

Britain always helped the colonies.

Britain ignored some of its own rules for the colonies.

Britain taxed the colonies very heavily.

Britain sent many soldiers to the colonies.

Sugar and molasses

All printed documents like newspapers

Tea

Land and houses

A group of British soldiers

A resistance movement that protested British taxes

A company that sold tea

A group of Native American tribes

Colonists signed a peace treaty.

British soldiers fired on colonists.

Colonists dumped tea into the harbor.

King George III visited Boston.

It made tea cheaper.

It closed Boston Harbor.

It allowed colonists to move west.

It gave colonists more power.

Colonists should stay loyal to Britain.

Colonists needed to pay more taxes.

Colonists should become independent from Britain.

Colonists should move to new lands.

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

John Adams

To stay loyal to the King

To get more taxes

To have their own country

To join the British army