Chapter 4 Section 1 And 2 Flashcards
This pamphlet was widely read by colonist and encouraged them toward revolution
Common sense
Colonial delegates met with Iroquois leaders at this conference center
Albany conference
These committees were created to allow colonies to communicate about British activities
Committees of correspondence
Americans who backed Britain were called
Loyalists - tories
This act said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians
Proclamation of 1763
The leader of the sons of Liberty in Boston
Sam Adams
The British and French both wanted to control this valley
Ohio valley
This act banned the use of paper money in the colonies
Currency act
The battle for Quebec took place on there plains
Plains of Abraham
This act placed the first direct tax on the colonists
Stamp act
To blockade the st. Lawerence
Pitt
These acts were meant to punish the colonists of Boston for dumping tea in the harbor
Coercive acts
Militia members were called this
Minutmen
The continental congress met in this city
Philadelphia
The ottawa chief who attacked settlers west of the Appalachians
Pontiac
This treaty ended the French and indian war
Treaty of Paris 1763
the “shot heard around the world” was fired there
Concord - Lexington
President of the continental congress who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
The British General government was made governor of Massachusetts by the king
Gage
The French and India war was caked this in Europe
7 years war
The coercive and quebec acts became known as these acts to the colonists
Intolerable acts
This name was given by the colonists to the skirmish with British soldiers on Boston common
Boston massacre
These allowed custom agents to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling
Writs of assistance
Patriot group who heed the Boston Tea party
Sons of Liberty
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
He was made head of the continental army
Washington
This petition was sent to King George by the second continental congress
Olive branch petition
First person killed in the Boston massacre
Chrispus Atticus
The first weekly newspaper and first postman
Boston gazette and Ben Franklin
The stockade fort bully by Washington in the wilderness near great meadows
Necessity
In May 1769, Virginias house of burgesses passed the ___ stating that only the house had the right to tax Virginians
Virginia resolved
The turning part of the French and Indian war in North America
Battle of Quebec
Name the 4 parts of the Declaration of Independence
Preamble
Natural rights
List of grievances
Resolution of independence
Wrote common sense
Thomas Paine