History Quiz chapter 4 for 11/3/23 Flashcards
Nonimportation agreements
. Promise not to buy or import British goods, they tax us without our consent.
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade British colonists from settling west of the Application mountains.
Committee of Correspondence
Those were used by the colonies to develop common goals.
Writs of assistance
Used by the British to search colonists homes. Search warrants.
First Continental Congress
They write the Declaration of rights and they also set up the Non-importation agreement, and decide to arm themselves. It is called in reaction to intolerable acts.
Second Continental Congress
Interaction to firing in Lexington. Tried the olive branch petition directed at the king. The Declaration of Independence will be signed. From the army.
Declaratory Act
Declares Parliament’s right to legislate for its colonies in any way it seems Fair.
Sons of Liberty
Group of Patriots orgazines respectable forms or protest
Quartering Act
House British troops and supply them. Quarter them.
Intolerable Acts
Passed as result of the Boston Tea party. Directed right at Massachusetts.
Boston Tea Party
Inspired by intolerable acts, threw tea into the river
Declaration of Resolves
Directed at parliament. At the First continental congress telling parlament we were loyal and we had certain rights.
Stamp Act
Taxed individuals for buying playing cards, paper, dice, etc.. When you bought something you had to go get a stamp on that object, so everyone knew you paid taxes on it. No taxation without representation.
Townshend Acts
Import duties/ tariffs to raise money
Quebec Act
Same time as the intolerable acts, colonists found it as tolerable as the intolerable acts
Concord
Weapons were stored that the British were looking for when they went through Lexington
Olive Branch Petition
Like the declaration of resolves, directed at the king
Boston Massacre
A protest during the townshend crisis
Lexington
shot heard around the world
Declaration of Independence
The People had the right to overthrow an unjust government
Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis had to surrender
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point in the war, and France gave the Americans support. General Howe will be fired by the British government, a new governor will take his place
Battle of Trenton
Johann Rall - “We don’t need NO Trenches’’
Battle of Long Island
The first major battle
Battle of Vincennes
George rogers clarke
Marquis de Lafayette
Washington’s biggest foreign supporter
Wm. Howe
British commander general 1776-1778 then got fired after saratoga
Charles Cornwallis
He surrendered at yorktown
Nathanael Greene
Commands the south, fights gorilla warfare
Counte de Grasse
French navy commander
George Rogers Clark
Battle of Vincennes
Counte de Rochambeau
Comes out of Rhode island with George Washington and they march to Lay Siege on Yorktown. The french commander of the French army
General Burgoyne
Invade from canada, got beat at Saratoga
George Washington
Attacked Colonel Roll at Trenton
Viscount Richard Howe
He is the commander of the British navy
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Thomas paine, ‘‘times try men’s souls’’
Johann Rall
“We don’t need NO Trenches’’, he said this. He was the Hessian Commander at Trenton.
