MOD 3 Vocab

All the terms from the crossword puzzle

profiteering

selling scarce goods for a profit

Declaration of Independence

declared Americans independent from Great Britain

Committees of Correspondence

a way for the colonies to communicate during the revolution

Pontiac

Ottawa leader who fought the British after the French Indian war

Boston Massacre

March 5, 1770- fight that broke out between colonists and British soldiers that left 5 people dead

Valley Forge

American Winter camp where conditions were harsh but the Americans were also formally trained

Common Sense

50 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that declared the time had come for colonists to proclaim an independent republic

Proclomation of 1763

banned all settlement west of the Appalachians

Mississippi

new Western boundary of the United States following the Revolutionary war

William Pitt

self-confident politician who reinvigorated the British Army during French Indian war to win which prompted the Iroquois to support the British

Charles Cornwallis

Surrendering General of the British army

French and Indian war

War between Great Britain and France over territory in North America

Minutmen

civillian soldiers

Sugar Act

Act that put a tax on sugar and other imported items and imposed harsher enforcement of anti-smuggling cases

Boston Tea Party

When angry Bostonians dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor

Thomas Paine

author of Common Sense

York Town

site/battle of British surrender

Samuel Adams

Leader of the Sons of Liberty

The Intolerable Acts

Acts that declared martial law (military rule) in Boston

George Washington

ambitious 22 year old officer for the British during the French and Indian War who would eventually lead the colonies in rebellion and become the 1st president of the US

Marquis de Lafayette

French military leader who offered assistance to the American cause

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Egalitarianism

a belief in the equality of all people

Stamp Act

Act that required colonists to put a special paper on every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, etc.

George III

King of England during the Revolutionary war

Townshend Act

indirect taxes on imported materials- lead, glass, paint, and paper- it imposed a 3 penny tax on tea

New France

French Colony in North America

Loyalists

colonists who opposed independence

Martial law

rule imposed by military force

Friedrich Von Steuben

Prussian captain who made regular soldiers out of the minutemen

Trenton

Suprise battle on Dec 25, 1776 where the Americans won a much needed morale boost

Saratoga

Battle that is considered the turning point of the war

Patriots

colonists who supported independence

Treaty of Paris

Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War

Olive Branch Petition

document sent to King George by colonists urging the return of “former harmony“