Revolutionary War

Meeting of colonial leaders to ask king to correct problems and write Declaration of Independence

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Committee of Correspondence

• Congress

Tax requiring a stamp on purchases of paper goods; first direct tax on colonists

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

Coercive Acts - shut down port, no town meetings, house solders, no charter

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Harbor Act

Tax requested by Prime Minister Greenville to pay for the French and Indian War

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

Pamphlet by Thomas Paine that said citizens should make laws

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

Phrase that expresses why colonists hated British taxes

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Give me liberty or give me death

• No taxation without representation

• all men are created equal

Place where Continental Army spent the winter with little food, clothing, or supplies

• Philadelphia

• Valley Forge

• Yorktown

• Trenton

Battle that was a major turning point in the war - Patriots got support of European countries

• Yorktown

• Lexington and Concord

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

Group of people that made the biggest contribution to the war efford

• women

• militias

• minutemen

• soldiers

Taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea; allowed British officials to search for smuggled goods

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act