Eric's Outline Flashcards
Plymouth Bay Colony
Colonial military arrested Thomas Morton for his “Revels of New Canaan” involving a 80 foot maypole
John Smith
Hard:
Was once captured and worked as a slave for a woman in Constantinople
Won a coat of arms from Sigismund Bathory after he killed three Turks in duels
Had the policy “he who does not work, will not eat”
Wrote General Historie of Virginia
Was captured by Powhatan, leader of Jamestown and saved apocryphally by Pocahontas
French and Indian War
American Phase of the Seven Years War
Atrocities were committed near Lake George at Fort William Henry
Jeffrey Amherst gave smallpox blankets to Indians besieging Fort Pitt
Edward Braddock was killed at the Battle of the Monongahela (He was dispatched to capture Fort Duquesne which became Fort Pitt)
George Washington fought at Fort Necessity
Generals James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm died at Plains of Abraham
Ben Franklin
Did the Join or Die cartoon for the Pennsylvania Gazette
Invented namesake stove, bifocals, subscription library
Wrote the Silence Do-Good Letters
Founded the Junto, a discussion group
Gaspee Incident
A man named John Brown was accused of being partly responsible for it
Restaurant owner Joseph Bucklin shot Captain Dudingston
Abraham Whipple led a bunch of arsonists to Gaspee
Rhode Islands burned he namesake ship to protest the Stamp Act
Battle of Bunker Hill
Dr. Joseph Warren was killed here
Thomas Gage was removed from British command after this battle and replaced by William Howe
Israel Putnam was also an American commander
William Prescott perhaps apocryphally said “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
Early Revolutionary War battle fought at Breed’s Hill
Invasion of Quebec
Failed attempt to invade during the American Revolution
Richard Montgomery
Battle of Trenton
Heavy fighting took place on King and Queen Streets
Johann Rall led the Hessians, who were supposedly drunk from celebrating Christmas
Henry Knox
First Secretary of War
Hauled captured cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga to Boston
Forced British evacuation when he placed cannon on Dorchester Heights
Was known as the “Ox” and died choking on a Chicken Bone
Edmund Randolph
First Attorney General
Introduced the highly centralized Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention
Whiskey Rebellion
Quashed by Lighthorse Harry Lee
Washington also took part in stopping it, as did Daniel Morgan
Put down by the “Watermelon Army”
Included a confrontation at Blackhorse Tavern
John Neville’s slaves attacked during it
Was against an excise tax proposed by Alexander Hamilton
500 men gathered to attack John Neville’s house in the Battle of Bower Hill
Treaty of San Ildefonso
1800 treaty in which Charles IV of Spain gave Louisiana territory to Napoleon
Aaron Burr
arrested on chargs of plotting to invade Spanish territories with a private army
was betrayed by associate James Wilkinson
John Marshall was the judge of his treason trial, and he was acquitted
Thomas Jefferson tried to get him convicted to no avail
daughter Theodosia disappeared on the ship Patriot
helped start the political machinery of the Tammany society
tied Thomas Jefferson with 73 electoral votes but was decided against by House of Reps
Shawnee Indians
Defeated at Point Pleasant in Lord Dunmore’s War
Defeated at Fallen Timbers by Mad Anthony Wayne under Bluejacket
Leaders were The Prophet and Tecumseh
Battle of Lundy’s Lane
Bloodiest battle of the year
Winfield Scott injured in it
