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The Treaty of Paris was the formal ending to the French and Indian War
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The Proclamation of 1763 was the end of the French and Indian War. The Proclamation controlled colonies from expanding and also controlled newly formed French colonies.
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The Stamp Act required people to pay a tax on every single piece of paper they ever used.
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The Quartering Act forced people to provide British soldiers with anything they need. Including food and housing.
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A Townshend Act was an act for granting certain duties among plantations and colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars because of growing tensions.
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The Intolerable Acts were a name givin by Patriots to the acts that stripped of the self- government.
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The Sons of Liberty were a group of Patriots that fought to protect the rights of colonists.
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The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent protest about the tax to carry tea which Americans had not authorized.
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The Continental Congress was the group of delegates from each colonie, forming the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution.
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Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary war who originally fought for the continental but he defected to the British army.
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Paul Revere is most famous for his alerting the colonial malitia of the approach of the British army.
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These battles marked the outbreak of the conflict between the thirteen colonies and Britian
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Thomas Paine was a political activist. He wrote the Common Sense which was a highly influential pamphlet about American independence
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Loyalists were the people in colonial America who still were and wanted to be a part of, or overseen by, Great Britain.
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The Declaration of Independence is a statement that the thirteen colonies in America were all independent from Britian.
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Sam Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution.
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George Washington was the commander-in-chief for the continental army and later became the first president of the United States.
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The patriots were kind of the rebels against Great Britain. They were the ones who wanted to be independent.
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John Adams was the second president of the United States as well as the first vice president. He was also one of the founding fathers.
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turing point in the Revolutionary War.
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This battle was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Treaty of Paris was the formal ending to the American Revolutionary War
