American Revoltion TEST Flashcards
Stamp act
Tax on all printed materials
Townshend Act
Taxes on imported goods such as glass, lead, and tea
Tea act
Gave the company a monopoly on the sale of tea
Boston tea party
Sons of liberty members dumped tea in to the harbor
Charles town
The greatest victory of the British
Egalitarianism
A belief in the equality Of all people
Patriots
Whigs - in favor of the revolution
Prohibitory Act
Great Britain ended all trade with the colonies
Sons of liberty
The group that protesters for the whole war
Quarting act
Put the soldiers in there house
Committees of correspondence
Underground spy networks that kept an eye on British movements enforced the boycott
Continental congress
Statement of grievances (complaints / demands)
Common sense
Thomas Paine author
List of reasons why the Americans should from the British
Olive branch petition
The continental congress called for a return a “the former harmony” between Great Britian and the colonies
Saragota
Turning point of the war
Declaratory Act
Stated that England still had the power to govern and the tax the colonies
Coercive act
They were the intolerable acts
Boston Massacre
Led by Samuel Adams
Used as a propaganda
5 colonies killed
Bunker hill
The first battle that started the revolutionary
Philadelphia
Continental congress abandons the city
Washington and americas lose the city in a series of battles
Loyalists
Tories - opposed for independence and remained loyal to the crown
Paris
Treaty of Paris
Official end of the war
Yorktown
Trapped the British surrender
October 17,1781 the war is over
New York
Battle lowest point in the war - all looked lost
