Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards
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Prohibitory Act (1775)
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- closed colonies to overseas trade (naval blockade)
- no concessions to American demands
2
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Common Sense (1776)
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- Thomas Paine
- bash monarchy, propagandize revolution
3
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Influence of the Declaration of Independence
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- inspired independence movements in American and France
- led to increased foreign aid for the struggling rebels
- encouraged American Patriots to fight
- divided American society
4
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Battle of Bunker Hill (6/17/1775)
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-heaviest British casualties of the war, even though they win the battle and patriots driven from there position there
5
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General William Howe
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- basically the reason the British lost the American Revolution
- abandoned his own strategy and didn’t take opportunities to strike
6
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Battle of Saratoga (oct. 1777)
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- turning point
- British surrender
- leads to French-American alliance
7
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Why did more Americans begin to support the independence movement once the war began?
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- High human/financial cost calls for noble cause
- British recruit slaves, Indians, and foreign mercenaries
- British reject Olive Branch Petition and enforce Prohibiory Act
8
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Joseph and Mary Brant
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- influential in Mohawk tribe
- persuaded their tribe and others to help British cause
9
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Lord Cornwallis
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- British commander in the south
- had a representative surrender for him at Yorktown bc he didn’t have the balls to do it himself
10
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Nathaniel Greene
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- bomb af American general (south)
- Quaker, former blacksmith
- practically beat Cornwallis
11
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Olive Branch Petition
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- final attempt by the colonists to avoid war with Great Britain/find a compromise
- rejected by the king
12
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Second Continental Congress
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- met in the State House in Philadelphia (delegates from every colony but Georgia)
- agreed to support the war, disagreed on the purpose
13
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Yorktown
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- Cornwallis surrendered
- last major battle of revolution
