Chapter 5 Flashcards
- Olive Branch Petition
Parliament’s final attempt to make peace with the colonists, but it reach the colonies after the Battle of Lexington and Concord
- Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
a book written that basically laid out the ideals that it was common sense for the colonies to want to be separate from Britain
- Declaration of Independence
written by Thomas Jefferson to the Parliament and the King of England proclaiming publicly that the US was free from britain
- Loyalist, “Tories”
colonists who wished to remain part of England
- Articles of Condfederation
the rules put into place for the united States government before the Constitution was formed
- Continental Army
the army created by the colonists to fight the Revolutionary War
- George Washington
commander of the Continental Army and would be first president
- Battle of Bunker Hill
fought on Breed’s hill proved to be an American loss ,but helped to greatly deplete the British Army
- Evacuation of New York
Nov 25, 1783 the last person of British authority left New York
- Battle of Trenton
Fought on Christmas Eve. George Washington led his troops across the icy Trenton river and defeated Hessians
- Battle of Saratoga
the turning point of the Revolutionary War. October 17, 1777 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.
- Louis XVI
King of France that created an alliance with the colonists to help them win the Revolutionary War
- Count de Vergennes
supported the colonists in the Revolutionary War which helped to start the French Revolution
- Nathaniel Greene
a General of the Continental army that forced Cornwallis to leave the Carolinas
- Yorktown
The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 in Virginia. British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
ended the Revolutionary War
- Father John Carroll
First Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States
- “noble savages”
a common view on Indians in American as said by Thomas Jefferson
- Molly Pitcher
a woman that is said to have fought in the American Revolution
- Abigail Adams
Wife of John Adams was influential in starting the Women’s rights movement
- Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty
gave everyone in the United States Freedom of religion and enacted in 1786.
- Ordinances of 1784 & 1785
a resolution written by Thomas Jefferson to help divide up land into different states
- Northwest Ordinace
created the firsts organized territory in the United States beyond the Appalachian Mountains
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
final battle of Northwest indian war for the Northwest territory
- Shay’s rebellion
was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787 caused by high debt of farmers
