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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts required all goods transported between England and the Colonies to be carried in an English vessel. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was fought between the British and the French over the Upper Ohio River Valley. -
Proclamation of 1763
Fighting between the Natives and the Paxton Boys was resolved by establishing three new colonies: Quebec, East, and West Florida. -
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were the colonies’ means for keeping communication in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1764, Boston founded the earliest Committee of Correspondence to empower opposition to Britain’s stiffening of customs, enforcement, and prohibition of paper money. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act enforced tax on all paper documents in the colonies. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a group of men that directed the Boston Tea Party after the Stamp Act. -
Daughters of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty were a group of women who supported the nonimportation of British goods like tea and clothes. -
Quartering Acts
The Quartering acts were acts that allowed British soldiers to stay in colonist homes if the barracks were too small. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed by the Parliament to claim its power to legislate for the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts that taxed the goods shipped to the colonies. -
Green Mountain Boys
The Green Mountain Boys were a militia that gained land and started doing good. They stopped sheriffs from terrorizing settlers. -
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks was one of the 5 killed at the Boston Massacre. He was a hero of the Boston Massacre even though he was African American -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers started shooting at a rioting mob of American colonists. This killed 5 colonists. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act that gave East India Company possession of the importation of tea sales. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the British and their taxes on tea. The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and threw British tea off the side of a ship. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act extended Quebec's boundaries and promised religious freedom to Catholic Canadians. -
Coercive/ Intolerable Acts
These Acts were laws passed by Parliament mostly directed at Massachusets for the Tea Party but the last one was directed at Quebec. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress came together to respond to the Coercive Acts. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia wrote a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress. -
Ethan Allan
He lead the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga with Benedict Arnold. He also petitioned for Vermont to become a state and failed. -
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry was one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. His influence helped create the Bill of Rights which limited the government's power. -
Wentworth Cheswell
Wentworth Cheswell was called the Black Founding Father for America. His role in the Revolution is riding with Paul Revere on the Midnight Ride. -
William Dawes
William Dawes managed to escape capture by the British on the Midnight Ride. Travel was blocked so Dawes sped west and then north through Roxbury, Brookline, Brighton, Cambridge and Menotomy. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American hero because of his Midnight Ride. He warned the Americans that the British were coming by running through the town yelling "The British are comin". -
Lexington and Concord
Britain on April 19, 1775, sent out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would take gunpowder. The Americans won these battles bcecause the British retreated. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was looked over by John Hancock, who replaced Peyton Randolph, and included some of the same delegates as the first, but with such notable additions as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.Congress lacked the legal authority to govern, but boldly assumed that responsibility. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a petition written by John Dickinson. It expresses hope for compromise between the colonies and Great Britain. -
The Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of America started by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. It was initially formed around Boston after fighting at the Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord in 1775. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle in Massachusetts. This was a battle that the British won. -
Haym Salomon
Haym Salomon was Jewish and was born in Poland. He was part of the Sons of Liberty. He was eventually imprisoned for patriotism and died because of the conditions. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers. He signed all four of the major documents. He also negotiated the Treaty of Paris and the D of I (1776) -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and he was the third U.S. president. He was also a leading figure in America’s early development. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English political philosopher and writer who supported the revolution in America and Europe. He also wrote Common Sense and had it published in 1776. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was written in 1776 by Thomas Paine. I was written to attack the British government. It states that the Parliament was based on sin. -
Declaration of Independence
In June 1776, five men including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin wrote a formal statement of the colonies’ intentions. They formally wrote the Declaration of Independence written mostly by Jefferson in Philadelphia on July 4. -
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was a spy for the American Revolution. He was disguised as a Dutch schoolmaster but was caught trying to sail back. He was hung the next day. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga were a series of conflicts fought between September and October 1777. The Colonists won these Battles against the British. -
Valley Forge
The Continental Army with George Washington entered its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from Philadelphia. Washington chose the west bank of the Schuylkill River that could be defendedduring a British attack. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a Revolutionary hero that helped capture Fort Ticonderoga but then became the most infamous traitor by switching sides in the war (1779). -
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was a Revolutionary War hero known as the father of the Navy. The American Revolution broke out and he fought with the colonists and joined the Continental Navy. His greatest victory was his defeat of the British warship Serapis in 1779. -
Francis Marion
Francis Marion first went to sea at age 15 and later served with his brother in the French and Indian War. In the early 1760s, he served under William Moultrie in the fighting against the Cherokee.In December 1780, he was promoted to brigadier general under Nathanael Greene. -
Bernardo Galvez
Gálvez helped the Thirteen Colonies get independence and led Spanish forces against Britain in the Revolutionary War, defeating the British at the Siege of Pensacola (1781) and conquering British West Florida. -
James Armistead
James Armistead was a spy for Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution. Because he helped them the British surrendered in 1781. -
Battle of Yorktown
George Washington ordered Lafayette and army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown while the French blocked the British by sea. -
John Adams
John Adams was one of the leaders of the American Revolution and served as the second president from 1797 to 1801. He also helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris (1783). -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris (1783) formally ended the American Revolutionary War. Statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with Great Britain. -
George Washington
George Washington was the first president (1787) and chief of the Continental Army. He lead the colonial forces to victory during the American Revolution. -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was a political leader that helped organize opposition to British Taxation. He also served as governor of Massachusettes from 1793-1797 -
John Jay
John Jay was the first chief justice in the U.S. He also negotiated the Jay treaty of 1974 which settled major grievances with Great Britain.
