American Rev Flashcards
Timeline:
1763: Pontiac’s Revellion
October 1763: Proclamatino of 1763
1764: Sugar Act passed by Grenville
1764: currency act
1765: quartering act
1765: stamp act
1766: repeal stamp act; declatory act
1767: townshend acts
1770: repeal townshend acts
1773: tea act
1774: intolerable acts
writs of assistance
legal documents that permitted customs collectors to search buildings
Continential Army strenghts & weaknesses
Strengths:
- fighting on homefront
- privateers (privately owned ships authorized to attack enemy)
Weakness:
- disorganized
- hard to keep for conscription
Why did Britain plan to capture New York?
Strong loyalist population
Located midway between New England and southern states
Wars that boosted morale
Trenton & Princeton
Turning Point: what and result
Saratoga; convinced French for alliance in Feb 1778. Spain later joined US
Winter of ______
Valley forge
`Battle of Monmouth: Who won
Washington won; drove British out of New York
Highlights of Battle of Trenton
- Christmas night
- travelled across Delaware River into New Jersey
Worst Patriot defeat
Battle of Charlestown
What did Victory at 1781 Yorktown lead to
Cornwallis’ defeat; led directly to peace treaties
- sang “world turned upside down” “Yankee Doodle”
American negotiators
Ben Franklin
John Adams
John Fay
Henry Laurens
The shot heard around the world
Which battle?
battles of Lexington and Concord
Treaty of Paris year
1783
Who are strongholds?
Loyalists (to Great britain)
Financial aftermath of Fr-Ind War for G.B.?
Debt doubles to 125 million pounds
Revenue/Sugar Act passed by who?
British PM Grenville
Sugar Act: Date and what
1764
Duty on molasses and sugar destroyed triangle trade between Britain, colonies, and West Indies
MAIN PURPOSE: REGULATE TRADE
Stamp Act: Date and purpose
1765: Main purpose: raise money to support British army in colonies
Where did First Continental Congress meet
Carpenter’s Hall in Philadephia
What was 1st Continental Congress for: 3 things they produced
- unified response to Coercive acts
1. Declaration of Rights
2. Established militia
3. Continental Association (colonies would refuse to import goods to Britain)
Whose strategy was “divide and conquer”: America or Britain?
B
Whose strategy was “attrition”: America or Britain?
A
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Who said it and when?
1775
Patrick Henry
2nd continental congress: When and accomplishments (3)
Summer 1775
1. Continental Army
2. Washington as commander
3. Issued Declaration of Independence (1776)
Phase I, II and III Dates and name
I: 1775-1776
Northern Campaign
II: 1777-1778
NY and PA
III: 1780-1781
Southern Strategy
Out of the 13 states, which state did not help create the constitution after War of Independence?
Rhode Island
Which compromise (out of Connecticut, Virginia, or New Jersey) was accepted as the Great Compromise?
Connecticut:
- bicameral legislative
- House of Representatives based on population
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Convention of delegates from 12 out of 13 states, met in Philadelphia, to create constitution
