US History Unit 5

3. creating new customs duties on common items, like lead, glass, paint, and tea, instead of direct taxes
5. Crispus Attucks was killed during this event between colonist and British soldiers in New England
6. the leader of the Continental Army and first President of the United States
8. a significant victory for the Continental army which led to the alliance with France
9. the intial battle between colonists and British troops over the intolerable acts in Massachusetts
12. the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the American Revolution
14. tax on the importation of refined sugar and cuts to molasses
16. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, argued for independence by denouncing monarchy and challenging the logic behind the British Empire
17. known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
18. clothing quickly became a marker of one’s virtue and patriotism, and women were an important part of this cultural shift

1. philosopher whose ideas of about government shaped the American Revolution, father of liberalism.
2. took the British crown in 1760 and implemented authoritarian policies on the colonies
4. resolution drafted by Thomas Jefferson to severe the alliance between Britian and the colonies
5. the final battle of the Revolution that left Gen. Cornnwallis to surrender to Washington
7. act required that many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped to show the duty had been paid, including newspapers, pamphlets.
10. restricted colonies from producing paper money
11. preceding the Constitution these article created a limited government for the colonies
13. colonists who supported British rule and sided with the British in the American Revolution
15. political protest by the Sons of Liberty to toss British tea in to the harbor