General information for H9 Flashcards
First Continental Congress
-mass tells colonies to stop trading with Britan
-12 of the 13 colonies(Georgia only had prisoners) met in Philadelphia on September 5 1774
-sam Addams convinced colonists to not trade with Britan for their future independents
Declaration of rights and grievances
Written by(wb)-sam Adams
-talked about relationship between colonies and parliament
-colonies should only be taxed by their own assemblies
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Mass collected weapons in town of Concord
Brits found out
Sybil Ludington
16 y old
Roused milita in Putnam county NY
Milita helped
Road 40 and roused 400 milita
Battle of Lexington
700 British against 70 American minutemen
Brits killed 8 and wound 10 and head to Concord
Moral victory cause Americans stalled
Battle of Concord
British meet Americans at Concord
British retreat and lose 300 men in battle
Americans lost less than 100
2nd continental Congress
May 1775
Philadelphia
George Washington chosen commander and chief of continental army
Created navy colonists licensed Americans privateers to loot British ships for supplies
Phillis Wheatley
Slave
Very intelligent wrote poems and sold a lot of books wrote a poem to George Washington
Bunker hill /breeds hill
William Prescott went to wrong hill
British attack 3 times
1 driven back
2 driven back
3 colonists ran out of gunpowder and surrendered
1/8 of British were killed in the battle
General Howe British leader lost 1000of his troops
Moral victory
Distraction ploy
Olive Branch petition (no way colonies
War declared July 6 1775
Attacking Canada
Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold attack Canada during snow storm
Montgomery dies and Arnold is wounded army. Retreats
Common sense
Wb Thomas Paine
Says that it’s common sense to stop recognizing king George the 3 who is taking away their power
French
Start helping supplying gunpowder to colonies
Happy to fight British
Declaration of Independence
July 4 1776 wb Thomas Jefferson
Signed by John Hancock the prez on continental Congress and sent to each state
Deborah sampson
Pretended to be male soldier Robert shurleff
Was given honorable discharge
Lidia darragh
Housed British troops and got information
Snuk out of city and got information to Washington
Mammy kate
Snuk master out of prison
Articles of confederation
1 branch
Unicameral Congress
Needed all 13 states to ratifie it
Ratified on March 1 1781
Each state gets 1 vote
Needs 9 out of 13 votes to pass a law
Articles of confederation powers
Make war and peace
Set up money system
Raise an army
Settle state disputes
Fix standers of weights and measures
Articles of confederation missing
Power to tax
No prez or other leadership
State not forced to what they do
Shays rebellion
Shays farmer and revolutionary veteran and other in debt farmers
Fought against tax collection
Because articles government had ruined economy making it hard for them to pay off debts
Annapolis meeting
12 delegates from 5 states
Met to discuss interstate trade
In Annapolis, Maryland
States needed to be able to trade between states and needed to find a way to cope with different state currencys
Philadelphia convention
May 14 to September 17,1787
In the independents hall in Philadelphia
Oldest delaget is ben Franklin
55 delagets attended
They were called framers
Philadelphia convention start
Prez is George Washington
16 rules of procedure adopted
Va plan introduced
The new Jersey plan introduced
Va plan
Introduced first by Edmund Randolph
Wb James Madison
For larger states
National power
3 branches
Legislative
Two houses
Proportional representation higher population more votes
Executive branch
A prez
Can veto
New Jersey plan
Introduced and wb by William Paterson
For small states
State over national power
3 branches
Legislative
One house
Equal representation one state gets one vote
No veto
Executive
Group of leaders
Compromise between nj plan and va plan
Introduced by Luther martin and presented by roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth
Wb Roger Sherman
3 branches
Legislative
Two houses
Proportional representation
Executive branch
One prez and a cabinet
Prez has veto
Judicial branch
One supreme court
Will hear most cases
Ratification order
1 Delaware
9 new Hampshire (when it should have been adopted
10 Virginia
11 new York (was adopted
13 road Island
Authors of Federalist papers
James Madison
Alexander
John jay
Main anti federalist author
Mercy Otis Warren
