Describe the Boston Massacre.

The killing of five colonists during a conflict with British soldiers in Boston in 1770.

What does the term boycott mean?

to refuse to do business or have contact with a person, group, or country or product

What is a militia?

a group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution

Describe who the minutemen were.

volunteer soldiers who defended the colonies against the British at a minute's notice

Define repeal

to withdraw or cancel

What is the Stamp Act?

a law passed by Britain in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newpapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and evenplaying cards.

England made the colonists angry when it enforced the _________________ of 1765.

Stamp Act

The _______________ organized protests against taxes.

Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams was a member of what organization that protested against taxes.

Sons of Liberty

Why did the new taxes anger colonists?

They thought only they should be able to tax themselves.

What did the Townshend Acts tax?

tea, paper, glass, lead, paint

The Daughters of Liberty decided to _________, or not buy , British tea.

boycott

Name the escaped African slave, who was killed along with four others during the Boston Massacre.

Crispus Attucks

_______________ was a group of colonists in each colony who wrote to each other to inform colonists about important political events in the colonies.

Committees of Correspondence

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by ______________________.

closing the port of Boston until the tea was paid for and banning town meetings

The First Continental Congress decided to send a_______________ , stop______________, gather__________, and later establish a _________.

petition to King George III asking for a repeal of the Intolerable Acts, stop trade with Britian, gather minutemen, and establish a militia.

Define a Loyalist

a colonist who supported Great Britian in the American Revolution

Define a Patriot

an American colonist who supported the fight for independence

The main purpose of a political cartoon is to _______________.

show news worthy opinions

Something that stands for something else is called a(n) _________________.

symbol

Political cartoons usually FIRST appear (where) ________________.

in newspapers

The first battle of the American Revolution was at ________________________.

Lexington

The British marched to Lexington to _______________________.

arrest Samual Adams and John Hancock

The British decided to go on to Concord to _______________________.

capture weapons the militia had stored there

What happened to the British as they returned from Concord to Boston after the battle at Lexington?

Colonial militiamen ambushed them

Whose speech inspired members of the Virginia House of Burgesses to break with Great Britain and form a militia?

Patrick Henry

The Patriot's capture of Fort Ticonderoga hurt the British by _______________ and ________________.

capturing British cannons and cutting off British support from Canada

Some colonists worried that independence would mean ___________________________.

loss of economic benefits of trade with Britain

What was the Continental Army?

The army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 with George Washington as commander in chief

What was the Declaration of Independence?

The document issued by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, explaining why the colonies were breaking from Great Britain

What is a traitor?

someone who turns against his or her own country

List the four accomplishments of the Second Continental Congress.

1. formed the Continental Army

2. started the postal service

3. asked foreign countries for support

4. sent the Olive Branch Petition

The Commander in Chief of the new Continental Army was ________________.

George Washington

Memebers of the Second Continental Congress sent the ____________________.

Olive Branch Petition

King George reacted to the Olive Branch Petition by _______________________.

refusing to read it

Name the former bookseller who dragged cannons over 250 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston.

Henry Knox

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was so popular with the colonists because _________________________.

he used language most people could easily understand

Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

What did The Declaration of Independence explain?

Why the colonies should separate from Great Britian

According to Thomas Jefferson, three rights all people should have are __________________.

1. life

2. liberty

3. the pursuit of happiness

Two changes to the Declaration of Independence made by the delegates were ______________________.

1. attacks against King George III sounded less angry

2. took out words about slavery

Each man who signed the Declaration of Independence was considered a _________ by Great Britain.

traitor

The colonists ended _____________ by signing the Declaration of Independence.

British authority