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