Chap 66 Flashcards
Gaspee
British customs ship that ran aground in Rhode Island and was subsequently burned.
Comitee of Correspondence
Provided information on British threats to liberty and established a model of intercolonial cooperation.
Tea Act of 1773
Gave a tea monopoly to the British East India Company.
Boston Tea party
8 November 1773: Three ships including the Dartmouth had their tea destroyed
Loyalists
Brit lovers
Coercive Acts
Four acts to punish Massachuts with harbor closure, removal of govorning/judicial rights, and quartering.
Paxton Boys
Pennsylvania Scots-Irish who killed innocent Indians
Regulators
North Carolina rebels who wanted to overthrow the colonial govornment
Intolerable Acts
Nickname for the Coercive Acts
Quebec Act
Established too much territory, politics, and Roman Catholothism
First Continental Congress
Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to declare the rights of the colonies while maintaining their loyalty
Minutemen
A unit of Millitia
Patrick Henry
Said to give him liberty or death at the Virginia Convention
Militia
Citizen Soldiers
Regulars
Professional Soldiers
Paul Revere
Warned colonists that the British were advancing to Lexington
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War on April 19th 1775 that was won by the Americans and put the British in Boston. Instigated by the British seizing armaments in Boston.
Patriots
Brit haters
Tories
Nickname for Brit lovers
Hessians
British Hired Germans