Revolution Vocabulary Practice

a conflict between France and England for control of the rich fur region of the Ohio River valley

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• French and Indian War

a tax on the use of paper

• Sugar Act

• Paper Tax

• Stamp Act

• Paper Act

slogan of protest used by the colonists

• "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"

• "No Taxation without Representation"

• "Join or Die"

• "He who Taxes should be Taxed!"

group of male patriots who protested against taxes, attacked tax collectors, boycotted, and spied on British soldiers

• Brothers of Liberty

• Fathers of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• The Revolutionists

group of female patriots who make their own cloth instead of buying from Britain, boycotted tea, and protested the Stamp Act

• Women of Liberty

• Mothers of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• The Preservationists

British soldiers shot snowball throwing colonists

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• The Boston Rebellion

• The Boston Revolution

Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Rebellion

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Revolution

The first Rhode Island group of soldiers that recruited free Blacks in 1778.

• The Redtails

• The Black Regiment

• The Blackcoats

• The Tuskegee Airmen

The first battles of the Revolutionary War

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Trenton

The first major battle of the American Revolution.

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of lexington and Concord

• Battle of Yorktown