American+Revolution+I-Q

==**__ Intolerable Acts(1774)- __** This act included a series of new laws that imposed British power on the colonies. One of these closed off the part of Boston so colonists could not trade with anyone else except the British.==



== **__John Adams-__**﻿ J  ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ohn Adams played a lead role in persuading congress to declare independence and assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the United States of America Declaration of Independence and a major negotiator for peace with great Britain.==

==**__ King George the III- __** King George lost the fight to control the colonies; he was a popular king in the old times. He was holding the throne from (1760,1820) because his granddaughter Queen Victoria took it. He was not responsible for any of the laws or rules the colonists had to follow.==

==__** Minutemen- **__ Were citizen soldiers in the American colonies who volunteered to fight the British at a "minute's notice". The most famous minutemen were those who figured in the battles at Lexington and Concord, though minutemen militias were organized in other New England colonies .==



==__ New England :__ The New England Colonies of British America included: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island , and New Hampshire. They were part of the Thirteen colonies including the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies.==

==__ **Casmir Pulaski -** __ During the American Revolutionary War he saved the life of George Washington. He became a general too. . He died of wounds suffered in the Battle of Savannah. Pulaski is one of only seven to be awarded honorary United States citizenship. He was called the father of American cavalry for introducing Europe cavalry tactics to the Continental Army .==

==**__ Quartering Act- __**In 1765 the parliament made a law called the Quartering Act to save money. Parliament tried to enforced the law, which made the colonists house British soldiers. In 1763 the British kept 10,000 soldiers in the colonies.==