Match the key term with the correct description.
1.
Sons of Liberty

2.
Daughters of Liberty

3.
Committees of Correspondence

4.
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

5.
Declaration of Independence

6.
Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five

tasked with drafting a statement to represent the Continental Congress delegates’ decision to seek independence from Britain


group organized in Massachusetts in 1772 to promote communication among colonies about British threats to colonial liberty and to plan resistance to those threats


official explanation for American independence; Americans renounced their “allegiance to the British Crown”


pamphlet written to convince colonists to declare independence from the British crown; spelled out the reasons why the colonies sever all ties with England


group of planters, merchants, and lawyers in the American colonies who protested British taxes


consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townsend Acts