Social studies chapter 4 - grade 9
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Stamp act
March 1765
Sons of liberty
resistance group led by Samuel Adams
Declaratory act
March 1766
Townshend acts
By Charles Townshend in 1767. tax on imports.
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770, in a customs house.
Committees of correspondence
To communicate with other colonists.
Boston Tea party
December 16, 1773
Intolerable acts
• includes the quartering acts.
General Gage
commander in chief of British forces.
Minutemen
colonist civilian soldiers
Joseph Warren
resentence leader when Hancock and Adams were hiding.
Paul Revere
Sent to warn Hancock and Adams in Lexington.
Battle of Lexington
April 19, 1775.
continental army
led by George Washington
battle of bunker hill
June 17, 1777. loss for the British, but won. Deadliest battle in the war.
olive branch petition.
July 8, 1775. to return peace, the king rejected it.
common sense
Thomas Paine, urged the colonists to fight for independence.
Declaration of Independence.
written by Thomas Jefferson. voted on July 2, 1776.
Quakers
supported colonists but didn’t believe in war
Hessians
German soldiers from Hesse.
battle of Trenton
Washington led a surprise attack on the drunk Hessians. on Christmas night 1776
Burgoyne
surrendered in Saratoga in oct-18, 1777.
France’s Alliance with America
Feb 1778
Valley Forge
a camp where Washington’s troops stayed in 1777.