McEwen Causes Of The Am. Rev. Flashcards
Made it to Concord to warn the British
Samuel Prescott
Exaggerating to present your point of view
Propaganda
“The Shot Heard Around the World”
Concord
5 colonists were killed during this event
Boston Massacre
Men who could be ready to fight in a minute’s notice
Minutemen
Harbor at this location was closed by the Coercive Acts
Boston
Form of clothing made by the Daughters of Liberty
Homespun
Organized Indian tribes against the English
Pontiac
British General who tried to sneak his troops out of Boston
Thomas Gage
Group of colonists who organized boycotts against the British
Sons of Liberty
Refusal to buy goods from someone
Boycott
Nicknamed “Intolerable” by the colonists
Coercive Acts
Reasons colonists were willing to go to war
Freedom
Taxes
Boston Massacre
Reasons the British were willing to go to war
Attacks on soldiers
Treason
Power
British Acts
Townsend Sugar Stamp Quartering Declaratory
British Acts
Coercive
Proclamation of 1763