American Revolution Flashcards
- Purpose of the Declaration of Independence
1.The government has to respect the rights of the people they protect.
- Purpose of Paul Revere’s ride
He rode out of Boston to warn other minutemen and their leaders that the British were coming.
- Common Sense - Author and basic ideas of the pamphlet
The author was Thomas paine.
-said independence was the colonial destiny
-any new govt formed would be a vast improvement
-new society would be free from tyranny
-equal society and economic opportunity for all
- Causes of the American Revolution
The parliament approved the proclamation of 1763
-stamp act
-townshend act.
-the Boston Massacre.
-Then the dump chest of tea in the river.
- strict law of the Coercive acts
- Stamp Act
There was a tax law that staed merchants have to buy stamos to put on all paper goofs.. It increased the cost passed onto colonist. In the colonies the sons of liberty are formed, they then harass stamp agents and boycott (no taxation without representation)
- Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot” mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed
- Boston Tea Party
In december the colonist used british ships to pretend to be native americans and dump 18,000 pounds of tea in the british harbour.
- Intolerable Acts
The british fights against the the minute men. Minute men are colonial military that were always ready to fight.
- Advantages the Americans had in the war:
better leadership, foreign aid, knowledge of the land, and motivation.
- Battles of Lexington & Concord
The british arrested agitators and capture weapons. The colonist were stockpiling weapons and gunpowder.
- What are some reasons that a colonist might not support the war against England?
They had grudges against the brutsh polocies
