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| Colonists who wanted freedom from Britain. |
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| Colonists who wanted to stay under British rule. |
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| Wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Group of leaders that helped the colonists fight back against the British. |
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| He was a member of the Sons of Liberty. He rode around on horseback warning the colonists that the British were on their way. |
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| The first battles of the war. Known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." |
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| When the British surrendered tot he colonists. |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| Signed on July 4, 1776. When the colonists were officially declaring independence from Britain. |
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| Major leader in the war. He led his troops in the battles of Trenton, Saratoga, and the Crossing of the Delaware. |
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| When the colonists threw tea chests into the Boston Harbor as an act of boycott. |
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| The British started taxing the colonists without their say because the British was in major debt from the French and Indian War. |
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| An act started by the British where soldiers could live with the colonists. The colonists would be forced to provide food and shelter for the British soldiers. |
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| The colonists were forced to pay an increased amount of money for their favorite drink. |
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| Leader of the Sons of Liberty. |
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| To refuse to do something. For example, the colonists boycotted drinking tea so they wouldn't have to pay the Tea Tax. |
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