First quarter iSTEM history Flashcards
What does the word Boycott mean?
To refuse to buy
What does the word Lexington/Concord mean?
The two places where there was a fight between the rebels and British soldiers.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The clash in 1777 between British groups and a group of Bostonians in which 5 colonies were killed.
What is Authority?
To have the power behind them, to control someone with the right to do so.
Who was King George the 3rd?
King George was the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He passed many harsh and unfair laws taking away the rights of the colonists that eventually led to the Revolution.
Proclamation of 1763
The British Decree prohibiting colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
Jamestown
First successful colony in the new world, in Jamestown, Virginia.
Stamp Act
The 1765 British degree taxing all legal papers issued in the colonies.
Declaration of Independence
The document adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States as a nation independent of Great Britain.
Plymouth Colony
In 1620 a small group of English settlers landed in Massachusetts they were looking for religious freedom and no taxes.
Roanoke
Site of first English colony in the Americas, starting in 1585.
Quartering Act
1765 It required the colonies to quarter (provide housing and supplies for the soldiers).
Boston Tea Party
The 1773 protest against British trade policies in which patriots boarded vessels of the East India Company and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
Manifest Destiny
The belief that it was the destiny of the United States to expand to its natural borders.
Treaty of Paris
The treaty ending the revolutionary war. 1783
