🔘American Revolution🔳 Flashcards
British Laws
Stamp act, tea act, intolerable acts,(in-trouble, Boston tea party, 1st continental congress) quartering acts, (houses )sugar act,(molasses,paper,led) township acts, Writs assistance, proclamation of 1763.(cannot go west of Appelation mts)
Causes
French and Indian war leftovers, mercantilism , no taxation without representation, Boston massacre.
Protests
Boycott, letters, tar and feathering, Boston tea party(Sons of Liberty)
Second Continental Congress
Olive branch petition
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Declaration of Independence, (changes the reason the war is fought )
Battles
Lexington and Concord (1st Fort Ticonderoga), Bunkerhill (cow pens) Kings Mountain, Valley Forge, Saratoga (turning point) Yorktown (British Surender
Patriots
General Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Lafayette, Steuben, Spain, France, Swamp Fox.
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Benedict Arnold
British
Gage, howe (2), Burgoyne, Cornwallis (corn/Yorktown), Clinton, mercenaries, blackwatch, lessiens Ferguson
US
Independent country, need a government, has a lot of debt, inspires other revolutions.
Loyalists
Most stay, some leave,
Great Britain, Canada, Caribbean
Treaty of Paris 1783
US is a country, US fishing rights, Spain gets Florida back (not followed), England return slaves, US to reimburse loyalists.
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N: Canada/Great Lakes
E:Atlantic Ocean
S:Florida
W:Mississippi River