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| – Massachusetts lawyer who championed colonial independence |
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| Treaty of Paris – 1783 peace treaty that officially ended the American Revolution and recognized American independence |
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| – Virginia colonist who demanded “Give me liberty, or give me death.” |
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| – Patriot associations that protested against British taxes |
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| nonimportation agreements |
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| – colonial boycotts of British goods following the Stamp Act |
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| – Virginia patriot and main author of the Declaration of Independence |
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| – the 1770 shooting of five Boston citizens by British soldiers |
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| Charles Cornwallis – British general defeated at Princeton and later forced to surrender at Yorktown |
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| – 1773 Patriot protest against British tax on tea; Patriots dumped British tea into Boston Harbor |
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| – colonial label for the Coercive Acts punishing Boston after the Boston Tea Party |
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| –American victory in New York (1777) that led to alliance with France |
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| – a civilian group that trains as soldiers to serve in emergencies |
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| – colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolution |
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| – volunteers who supported the Patriot siege of Boston and were put under control of Congress |
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| – author of the pamphlet Common Sense that proposed independence |
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| – 1777 Patriot victory that came on the heels of Trenton |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| – 1776 document that explained the reasons for American independence from Great Britain |
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| – Pennsylvania camp where Washington’s army spent the harsh winter of 1777-1778 |
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| – Enlightenment idea embodied by the Declaration of Independence that all men have rights which governments cannot take away |
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| Kings Mountain – 1780 battle in South Carolina where Patriots crushed a Loyalist militia |
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| – 1765 act by Parliament that placed a tax on all printed materials |
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| committee of correspondence |
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| – provided leadership and cooperation between colonies |
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| – British general whose mistakes resulted in many British deaths at Bunker Hill |
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| – to voluntarily free a slave |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| – 1774 meeting of colonial delegates to protest the Intolerable Acts |
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| – Virginian chosen to command the Continental Army |
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| Battle of Trenton – surprise victory by General Washington in December 1776 |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| – colonial delegates who met in Philadelphia in May 1775 to organize a bigger fight against the British |
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| – French nobleman who assisted Washington |
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| – ambassador to France who persuaded the French to aid the Americans |
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| – defeat of British troops after their evacuation of Philadelphia in June 1778 |
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| – final major battle of the Revolution, where a large British army was forced to surrender in October 1781 |
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