1. Boston Tea Party Led to the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774

2. Pennsylvania Site of a colony founded by the Quakers

3. Samuel de Champlain A French explorer who set up the trading post of Quebec

4. Battle of Saratoga Convinced French to provide aid to the Americans

5. The Stamp Act Passed by the British in an effort to raise money

6. Indentured servants Worked to pay for their passage to America

7. Mayflower Compact Set up a democratic civil government in Plymouth

8. Lexington “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired here

9. Thomas Paine Called for the complete separation from Britain

10. Benjamin Franklin Famous American inventor

11. John Winthrop Led the group of Puritans who set up the colony of Massachusetts

12. Treaty of Paris Recognized the United States as an independent nation

13. militia Group of citizen soldiers

14. Boston Massacre Killed five colonists on March 5, 1770

15. Propriety colony Owned by an individual or a small group of people

16. Slave codes Strict laws governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans

17. Roanoke Site of the “Lost Colony”

18. Declaration of Independence Approved by Continental Congress on July 4, 1776

19. Subsistence farmers They produced just enough to feed their families

20. Olive Branch Petition Asked King George 3 rd to protect the colonists’ rights