American Revolution

Turning point of the war, colonial victory, changes BR's war strategy

Who won the American Revolution?

This document announces that people have the right to life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness

Tax on printed items such as books, newspapers, pamphlets, or legal documents

Group that supported Britain & the King during the Revolution

Document urging the King to return to the "former harmony, the King will proclaim that the colonists were in rebellion

Date the Declaration of Independence is adopted

Five are dead after tensions rose between BR & colonists in the streets of Boston, MA.

The treaty that confirmed US independence was called the Treaty of Paris

Group of colonists that supported Britain or remained loyal to the King during the Revolution

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Written by Thomas Paine

BR passes a series of harsh laws, such as shutting down Boston Harbor & Quartering Act

Tax on imports of glass, lead, paint. Colonists felt this was "taxation without representation"

War between BR & FR over Ohio River Valley. Colonists were loyal to BR. Harsh laws enforced

"Shot heard round the world" BR attack on the colonies trying to seize ammunition

Written by Thomas Jefferson, states that people have unalienable rights; life, liberty, & property

Group that creates the Continental Army, appoints G. Washington as military commander, & signed the D of I

Banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mts., Britain intended this to protect colonists

Forced the colonists to pay a tax on tea, gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea

Which best describes the effects of the American Revolution on the U.S. & the world?

Site of the Continental Army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778

Of the following, which was not a part of the Treaty of Paris (1783)?

Declared independence on July 4, 1776, led by Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, & Thomas Jefferson

Tax on sugar & molasses placed on the colonists by the King to end smuggling in the colonies

A group of colonists that supported Independence and separating from BR