QUIZ #2 Flashcards
Battle where the colonies began to win and France decided to help them.
Saratoga
This repealed the Townshend Acts and created a tax on just TEA
Tea Act
a formal request for change…
a letter signed by lots of people asking the government to do something different
petition
Final battle of the American Revolution and the place the British surrendered.
Yorktown
1st battle of the American Revolution
General Gage was trying to get the weapons from the colonists in MA
Lexington and Concord
Who was in charge of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Who owned Florida after the American Revolution
Spain
Western edge/boundary of the US after the war
Mississippi River
Letter to King George explaining the colonies were loyal, but Parliament was treating them unfairly and needed to stop so there could be peace.
Olive Branch Petition
short pamplet/essay written by Thomas Paine that said the colonies should declare independence because it would help them grow.
Common Sense
He wrote the Declaration of Independence down
Thomas Jefferson
colonial government which sent the Olive Branch Petition and the Declaration of Independence.
2nd Continental Congress
person who believed the colonies should fight for independence
Patriot
Introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
Preamble
Colonial protest which resulted in the destruction of property in Boston. The Coercive Acts were passed as a punishment.
Boston Tea Party
2 names for a person who wanted to stay part of Great Britain
Loyalist
Torie
The rights the creators of the Declaration of Independence believed all were born with and could not be taken away
unalienable
life, liberty, pursiut of happiness
What closed the Boston Harbor and town meeting as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?
Coercive Acts/ Intorable Acts
letter to Great Britian** said the government was unfair and taking away colonial rights so the colonies were **no longer part of Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence
