This was ended when the British began imposing excessive taxes on the colonies.

This group of people protested the Stamp Act and attacked royal officials.

This person was a key figure in most of the Patriot movements in Massachusetts.

One of Britain's most important frontier outposts that was located in western Pennsylvania.

This was 10% of the population in Boston during this time period.

As Britain's power in the colonies grew, colonists feared they would lose these.

Benjamin Franklin's idea in response to taxes and was considered too radical to be accepted by Parliament.

This was the name the colonists gave to the acts the British used to force colonists to pay reparations.

Who ordered troops in Boston in September 1774 to seize Patriot armories in nearby Charlestown and Cambridge.

This man famously exclaimed, "Give me liberty or give me death!

The price of this was larger government and higher taxes at home.

Group of women that spun yarn and cloth to help fill the gap left by boycotted textiles.

This was the approximate percentage of Loyalists in America during the year 1775.

This new state was taken and made due to the results of Lord Dunmore's War.

Act forged by Grenville’s successor, the Earl of Rockingham, which stated that Parliament had: “full power and authority to make laws and statutes … to bind the colonies and people of America … in all cases whatsoever.”

Theses are sparsely populated aristocratic-controlled electoral districts.

Who said “We are taxed without our own consent,” and, “We are therefore — SLAVES.”

This was what the Continental Congress was going to do if their demands were not met by September of 1775.

Who had mobilized resistance to the Coercive Acts with the pamphlet "A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)."

Act passed by Parliament to provide financial relief for the East India Company and limit Dutch tea smuggling.

This concept says that legislative body has absolute power over all other government institutions.

General movement in the colonies to protest imported British goods.

In January 1775, who was sitting in the House of Lords as the Earl of Chatham?

He claimed that Massachusetts was an "open rebellion" and ordered Gage to "march against the rude rubble."

Confederacy formed when the Shawnee Indians invited other Indian leaders to a conference.