Declaration of Independence Flashcards
Who fought in French and Indian War?
France and Britain
Why were France and Britain fighting?
Land
Results of French and Indian war?
Mass destruction of cities and have long lasting effects on a country’s economy
Proclamation Line of 1763
issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years’ War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.
Ohio River Valley
a 981-mile long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
George Washington
an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Mercantilism
a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
End of salutary neglect
1763 with the conclusion of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years’ War
What does the Ben Franklin’s cartoon mean?
Illustrates Benjamin Franklin’s warning to the British colonies in America “join or die” and exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives
Why did BF’s cartoon become more popular later on? It later became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.
It later became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.
Sugar Act
Passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown
Stamp Act
also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies
Stamp Act Congress
also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York City in the colonial Province of New York
The Declaratory Act
stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
The Tea Act
granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.No taxation without representation is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain.
Sons of Liberty/Daughters of Liberty
Helped organize colonist dissent and resistance to British policies.
Boston Tea Party
an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
First Continental Congress
Convened in Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774.
Second Continental Congress
the late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.
Olive Branch Petition
written in 1775, was the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American Colonists and to settle their differences amicably.
Midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes
On April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren learned through Boston’s revolutionary underground that British troops were preparing to cross the Charles River and march to Lexington, presumably to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
