Please match the correct term to the correct definition

1. Started through a series of
actions by the British,
interpreted as hostile by
the colonists including the
occupation of Boston, the
Boston massacre, and the
attempt to seize patriot
leaders, ammunition, and
weapons from Lexington
and concord. The war was an attempt by the British to maintain control and to destroy opposition to the British government and control of the colonies.

2. Refers to the approximately 30,000 ethnic German troops that were hired by the British over the course of the American Revolutionary War.

3. The peace process/ winding down the war: post Yorktown phase: late 1781 through sept 1783

4. Protest and later open policies stemming from mercantilism and trade policies, And questions over taxation and protected rights. Took ideas from the enlightenment about the nature of the of peoples rights, the origin and purposes of government, and the rights of people regarding a government not protecting their natural rights.

5. Middle Atlantic phase: summer 1776- summer 1778

6. Southern phase: December 1778- October 1781

7. New England phase: April 1775- spring 1776


1. American revolution

2. Revolutionary war

3. Phase 1 of the revolutionary war

4. Phase 2 of the revolutionary war

5. Phase 3 of the revolutionary war

6. Phase 4 of the revolutionary war

7. Hessians