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