year Treaty of Paris (ending the American Revolution) was signed

the product taxed under the Townshend Acts that generated the most colonial resistance

American colonists loyal to England and the British Crown. Most common among the older generations and in areas where the Anglican Church was still th...

reaction to the Boston Tea Party which closed the port of Boston

British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including American colonists, even if they did not vote for its members.

British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party

irregular American troops who played a crucial role in swaying the neutral civilian population toward the Patriot cause

wealthy president of the Continental Congress and "King of the Smugglers"

underground networks of communication and propaganda established by Samuel Adams that sustained colonial resistance

led the unsuccessful American attempt to capture Quebec, and was killed in the battle

harsh measures of retaliation for the Boston Tea Party on Massachusetts, including the Boston Port Act

led a small American force to capture British strongholds at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, obtaining stores of gunpowder and weapons. these supplies pr...

British immigrant who wrote Common Sense