Major Themes Your Notes

Britain's Trade Laws and Taxation of the colonies

Rising Tension Between Colonists and British

Colonists Outward Protestations

The First Battles

The Second Continental Congress

The Declaration of Independence

Key Terms

Writs of Assistance

Stamp Act

Taxation without Representation

Boston Massacre

Key Terms Your Notes

Spreading the Word to the Colonies

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Tea Act

Boycotts

Boston Tea Party

Olive Branch Petition

Minutemen/Militias

Lexington/Concord

Loyalists/Patriots

Second Continental Congress: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Declaration of Independence: dates, author, sections