Chapter6 Flashcards
1)American negotiator of the Treaty of Paris and member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams
2)American soldier who committee treason by agreeing to hand over a fort to the British.
Benedict Arnold
3)British general who surrendered his army near Saratoga.
John Burgoyne
4)British general who surrendered his army near Yorktown.
Charles Cornwallis
5)British general whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord.
Thomas Cage
6)An early American success that supplied artillery for the forces around Boston.
Fort Ticonderoga
7)Virginian Patriot whose speeches supported the war.
Patrick Henry
8)British general who took New York and Philadelphia but missed his main objective.
William Howe
9)Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
10)Englishman who wrote Common Sense to arouse support for independence.
Thomas Paine
11)A costly victory outside of Boston.
Bunker hill
12)Commander of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga.
Ethan Allen
13)Commander in chief of the Continental army.
George Washington
14)A successful winter raid that lifted the morale of the young Continental army.
Trenton
15)An unsuccessful attempted to stop the British from taking Philadelphia.
Battle of Brandywine
16)American ordnance chief who surprised the British by transporting heavy artillery to Boston.
Henry Knox
17)overrated American commander who won at Saratoga but lost at Camden.
Horatio Gates
18)The capture of a British army,which encouraged France to join the War.
Saratoga Campaign
19)The Continental Army’s winter headquarters during the dark winter of 1777-78.
Valley Forge
20)A draw that proved the new professionalism of the Continental army.
Battle of Monmouth
21)American leader who was vital in winning the battles of Saratoga and Cowpens.
Daniel Morgan
22)German drillmaster for the Continental army.
Baron Von Stuben
23)American leader in the Northwest who captured Vincennes.
George Rogers Clark
24)Patriot guerrilla called the “Swamp Fox”.
Francis Marion
25)Resourceful American commander in the South know as the “Fighting Quaker” who kept the pressure on the British.
Nathanael Greene
26)French aristocrat who helped to corner the British at Yorktown.
Marquis de Lafayette
27)Action taken by Patriot in 1773,when British ships refused to talk their tea back to England.
Boston Tea Party
28)Treaty that brought the War for Independence to an end.
The treaty of Paris
29)Act that made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec.
Quebec Act
30)Colonial militiamen ready to fight in a moment’s notice.
Minutemen
31)A series of acts ,such as closing the port of Boston ,designed to punish and subjugate the troublesome colony.
Coercive Acts
32)Document stating that the colonist must be autonomous/self-governing in nearly every aspect and have the right to raise militias to defend themselves.
Declaration of American Right
33)Another term for Loyalists who were pro-British colonist.
Tories
34)Alerted colonies of British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony.
Committee of Corespondence
35)Act that granted East India Trading Company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in American.
Tea Acts of 1773
36)A large group of Scot-Irish living in the back country of south central Harrisburg.
Paxton Boys
37)Made a famous ride through the countryside of Massachusetts to alert of the impending British attack.
Paul Revere
38)A group of rebels who opposed British rule and held rallies to protest the Stamp Act.
Sons of Liberty
39)Fifty delegates gathered and adopted a formal statement of protest;they asserted the right of the colonies to self-govern.
First Continental Congress
40)German Mercenaries.
Hessians
41)Pamphlet that advocated independence from British.
Common sense
42)Minor victory for the American troops,but good moral booster for them.
Princeton
43)Professional full-time soldiers who made the military their career.
Regulars
44)Violent group of protestors against Britain,who dominated the North Carolina back country.
Regulators
45)Pro-British colonist
Loyalists
46)Document pledging loyalty to the king and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament’s abusive exercise of power.
Olive Branch Petition
47)Battle on a rolling meadows in which the British suffered 930 casualties and the American suffered only 70.
Battle of Cowpens
48)Little crossroads in North Carolina.
Gulford Court House
49)Cornwallis and his forces and Greene and his forced strived to reach to Dan River and cut off the other from their supply basses.
Race to Dan
50)Battle in which Major Patrick Ferguson and 80% of his force were destroyed.
Battle of Kings Mountain
51)The scene of British “humiliating defeat”
Yorktown
52)Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to assembly the mantle of governance and appointed George Washington Commander and chief of the Continental Army.
Second Continental Congress
53)Series of acts intended to punish the colonist and force them into submission,also known as the Coercive acts.
Intolerable Acts
54)”Citizen soldiers”
Militia
55)Local citizens boarded a British ship,remove its crew and burned the ship.
Gaspee incident
56)Trading post that fell on the Wabash River in what is now Indiana.
Vincennes
57)Area where Gates and Cornwallis stumbled upon each other in South Carolina.
Camden
58)Colonist loyal to America.
Patriots
59)The capture of an important American city,by the British,fallowing the Savannah.
Siege of Charleston
60)Document listing the grievances that Americans had against the king and stated universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation.
Declaration of Independence
61)After being defeated on land and sea the British troops lay down their arms and surrendered.
Surrender at Yorktown
