Chapter 1 Flashcards
Battle of Bunker Hill
A revolutionary war battle in Boston that demonstrates that the colonists could fight well against the British army
Continental Army
The army by the second continental congress in 1755 to defend the American colonists from Britain
First continental congress
A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of the of Boston harbor, increasing taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government; delegates petitioned King George the lll, listing the freedoms they believe colonists should enjoy.
Minutemen
American colonial militia members ready to fight at minutes notice
Patriots
American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the revolutionary war
Redcoats
British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the revolutionary war; so called recluse of their bright red uniforms
Second continental congress
1775 a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and concord.
George Washington
Inspired Americans and helped to unite the and kept peace with Britain and France while under presidency.
Common sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists to break away from Britain
Thomas Paine
American political philosopher and author he urged an immediate Declaration of Independence from England in his anonymously and simply written pamphlet Common sense
Declaration of Independence
The document written to declare the colonists free from British rule
Loyalists
Colonists who sided with Britain in the American revolution
Thomas Jefferson
American states man and member of two continental congresses chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence the declaration’s main author and one of its signers and the third president of the United States
Mercenaries
Hired foreign soldiers
Battle of Trenton
A revolutionary war battle in New Jersey in which patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops
Battle of Saratoga
a revolutionary war battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops marked the patriots greatest victory up to that point in the war
Marquis de Lafayette
French statesman and officer who viewed the American revolution as important to the world he helped finance the revolution and severed as a major general
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at valley forge during the American Revolutionary War
Bernardo de Galvez
Governor of Spanish Louisiana, captured Icey critics from the British
John Paul jones
American naval officer famed for bravery most famous victory was the defeat of the British warship
George Rodgers Clark
American revolution soldier and frontier leader he captured the British trending Village of kiashakia during the revolutionary war
Francis Marion
Revolutionary war commander of Marion bridge a group of querrilla soldiers in South Carolina
Comte de Rochambeu
French soldier who commanded the French troops in American Revolutionary War, was with general GeorgeWashington on the battle of Yorktown
Battle of Yorktown
The last major battle of the revolutionary war site of British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders to the patriots of Virginia
Treaty of Paris 1783
A peace agreement that officially ended the revolutionary war and established British recognition of the independence of the United States
