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Copyright 2002Bonnie Nizamis

Important people

Important Locations

Acts and laws

Steps to Rev.

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Name given to Colonial soldiers who could be

ready to fight very quickly.

Minutemen

100

One of the slang term for a British soldier

lobsterback or redcoat

200

Leader of the Sons of Liberty in

Massachusetts

Sam Adams

300

Colonial Lawyer who defended the English

soldiers after the Boston Massacre.

John Adams

400

King of England during the Revolution

King George III

500

City where the famous “massacre” occurred

Boston

100

Colony in which Boston is located

Massachusetts

200

Places where Colonial troops first fired on

British soldiers

Lexington and Concord

300

Colony in which the towns of Lexington and

Concord are located

Massachusetts

400

City where the first Continental Congress

met

Philadelphia

500

Act that required a tax on all written

documents, making the colonists furious

Stamp Act

100

Act that put a tax on all imported sugar

products

Sugar Act

200

American colonists who thought they were lucky to

be a part of the British colonies and under British protection. Therefore, they remained loyal to Britain in the American Revolution.

loyalists

300

Term that is described as – the mother country has

colonies in order to increase it’s wealth by

making money off of the colonies.

mercantilism

400

Law, passed in 1763, that forbade English

Colonists from moving across the Appalachian

Mountains.

Proclamation of 1763

500

Refusal by the colonists to buy British Goods

boycott

100

Organizations of patriots who did what they could to oppose

British rule in America

Sons of Liberty

200

Slogan about taxes that influenced many

colonists to rebel against Great Britain

“No taxation without representation”

300

Law-making body in England

Parliament

400

A plan of action used to reach a goal

strategy

500

Event that British hoped to pay for by

raising Colonists’ taxes

French and Indian War

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