Chapter 6 Flashcards
gaspee
British customs ships
Committee of correspondence
Provided info on British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony
tea act of 1773
Granted the east India company a monopoly on shipment and sale of British tea in America
Boston tea party
Patriots disguised as mohawk Indians, and dumped 342 large cases of tea destroyed nothing but the tea
loyalist
Pro-British colonists
coercive acts
Parliaments four acts intended to punish the troublesome colony
act one
Close harbor until cost of destroyed tea was repaid
act two
Officials had to be appointed by royal governors rather than elected, and the town meetings were allowed only with governor’s approval
act three
British officials accused of committing crimes had to be tried outside Massachusetts
Act four
Required housing and feeding of British soldiers in private homes
intolerable acts
Passed by patriots who refused to be coerced, hardened opposition, and created unprecedent sense of unity among the colonies
Quebec act
Directed at British Canada, set up a rigid political system, made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec, extended boundaries southward to Ohio river
first continental congress
Made of representatives from all colonies, except Georgia, gathered in Philadelphia’s Carpenter Hall
Minutemen
special units of militiamen, formed quick first line of defense in case the British invaded the countryside
Patrick Henry
Rose to address fellow legislators with powerful words that would soon be confirmed by blood
Paul Revere
sent by patriots to warn the colonists in Lexington
Lexington and Concord
many patriots died during the battle, but America won
Paxton boys
Scots Irish people living in the backcountry of Pennsylvania, accused peaceful Indians of being spies and killed them
regulators
North Carolina residents who did not like the upper– class leaders
militia
citizen soldiers, part–time fighters
regulars
Professional, full-time soldiers
Paul Revere
staged a midnight ride toward the colonists
Lexington and Concord
The villages where colonists skirmished with British troops firing the first shots of what became the war for independence
Patriots
Americans who fought for independence
Tories
Loyalists
Hessians
British-paid German soldiers
Second continental congress
Gathering of delegates in Philadelphia
Fort Ticonderoga
Located in New York, fell to patriot forces known as green mountain boys
Ethan Allen
Commanded the green mountain boys with the help from Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Asked to take charge of continental army
bunker hill
On Charleston peninsula north of Boston; patriots built forts here; British won at a cost
Breed’s hill
Site where most of the fighting took place
Henry Knox
Went to fort Ticonderoga and retrieved the captured British Cannon
Olive branch petition
A document that pledged loyalty to the king
common sense
Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine, put patriot ideas into words that fired their will
Thomas Paine
The author of common sense
John Adams
Appointed to draw up a declaration in support of Lee’s resolution
Thomas Jefferson
The primary author of the declaration of independence
declaration of independence
document approved by the second continental congress. listed the grievances that Americans had against the king and stated the universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation
