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Beginning• Called American Revolution, War of
Independence, and the Revolutionary War
Britain• War was between the colonies and
Great Britain which were separated by 3,000 miles
Years• War lasted 1775-1783 when Britain
was the most powerful country in the world
Loyalists
• Colonists who did not want to fight Britain
Discontent
• Unhappiness
Minutemen
• Men who were ready in a minute to fight the British
Protest• Group arguing against something
they don’t like
Slogan• “No taxation without representation”
Sons of Liberty• Patriots who support the
colonies’ independence
Daughters of Liberty
• Women who made fabric and tea to protest the British’s actions
Proclamation of 1763• Colonists can’t move west of
Appalachian Mountains
Boston Tea Party
• Colonial leaders dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Massacre
• Five men dead when British troops fire on the colonists
Crispus Attucks
• African American seaman killed in Boston Massacre
Captain Jorge Farragut
• From Spanish island of Minorca to help the American colonists fight the British
George Washington• Leader of continental army and
the 1st USA President
Patrick Henry
• Said “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Declaration of Independence
• Stated that the colonies wanted to be free of Britain
Common Sense
• Stated reasons why the colonies should break away from Britain
Abigail Adams
• Wanted women to vote
Soldier’s Life
• British wore red uniforms and were called “red coats”• Colonists army wore blue
uniforms
Soldiers
• Invisible ink was used by spies