Relier Pairs USHL U2 American Revolution: Preliminary EventsVersion en ligne Read the descriptions and click on the right pictures. par Andreina Farias Monasterios 1 Document that says “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.” 2 Group of wealthy plantation owners and businessmen who united 13 disparate colonies and fought for independence from Britain. 3 A political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, when American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. 4 It served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the U.S. 5 Slogan used by colonists who protested against British government by dumping 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. 6 Thomas Paine's writing that influenced the American Revolution by convincing the otherwise undecided public opinion that independence was a necessity.