C8. Road to War SS Vocab.

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The war between the 13 colonies and great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 colonies won their independence and became the US

American Revolution

Costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution

Battle of Bunker Hill

Event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists

Boston Massacre

Protest against British taxes; When colonists dumped tea

Boston Tea Party

Organized refusal to buy goods

Boycott

Groups of colonists formed in the 1770's to spread news quickly about protests against the British

Committee of Correspondence

Groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth

Daughters of Liberty

Meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia about Intolerable Acts

First Continental Congress

Laws passed by British Parliaments to punish the people of Boston

Intolerable Acts

Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution

Loyalists

Volunteer Armies

Militia