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| a law passed by parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an offical stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents |
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| an incident in which british soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists killing five people |
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| a law passed by parliament allowing the british east india company to sell its low cost tea directly to the colonies , undermining colonial tea merchants |
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| a protest against the tea act in which a group of colonists boarded british tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into the boston harbor |
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| laws passed by parliament to punish the colonists for the boston tea party and to tighten government control of the colonies |
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| a document written by the pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self government |
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| trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among england the american colonies and africa |
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| english colonist to the americas who helped found the jamestown colony and encouraged settlers to work harder and build better housing |
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| a maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of christians a crime the first law guaranteeing religious freedome to be passed in america |
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| a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland |
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| protestants who wanted to reform the church of england |
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| a memeber of a puritan separatist sect that left england in the early 1600s to settle in the americas |
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| first continental congress |
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| a meeting of colonial delegates in philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of boston harbor increased taxes and abuses of authority by the british government delegates petitioned king george III, listing the freedoms they beleived colonists should enjoy |
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| american colonists who fought for independence from great britain during the revolutionalry war |
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| american colonial militia members ready to fight at a minutes notice |
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| second continental congress |
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| a meeting of colonial delegates in philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at lexington and concord |
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| revolutionary war hero and patriot leader he served as a representative to the continetal congresses commanded the continental congresses commanded the continental army and was unanimously elected to two terms as president of the united states |
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| a revolutionary war battle at boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the british army |
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| a pamphlet written by thomas paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many american colonists of the need to break away from britian |
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| american political philosopher and author, he urged an immediate declaration of independence from england in his anonymously and simply written pamphlet |
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| american statesman and member of two continental congresses, chairman of the committee to draft the declaration of independence the declarations main author and one of its signers and the third president of the united states |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| the document written to declare the colonies free from british rule |
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| a revolutionary war battle in new york that resulted in a major defeat of british troops marked the patriots greatest victory up to that point in the war |
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| colonists who sided with britian in the american revoloution |
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| a peace agreement that offically ended the revolutionary war and established british recognition of the independence of the united states |
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| a colonists who recieved free passage to north america in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
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| the social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor |
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| american statesman he was a delegate to the continental congress a member of the committee that drafted the declaration of independence, vice president to george washington and the second president of the united states |
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| african american mathematician and astronomer, he was hired by thomas jefferson to help survey land for the new capital in washinton dc |
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