Revolutionary War Flashcards
Proclamation of 1763
The King of England, George III, passed a law prohibiting colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mt., which he enforced by quartering 10,000 troops in the colonies.
French and Indian War
The people of France joined with the Native Americans to attack the British, who joined forces with the Iroquois Confederation , in 1754, and the war fighting continued through 1763, and into Europe being called the Seven Years War.
African Americans
The southern colonies used these people as slaves labor on large plantations, growing cotton, tobacco, and food.
Native Americans
By joining the French and Indian War, these people were being hurt by declining populations from war casualties.
Taxes
The colonies were charged heavy prices for importing and expiring goods, and did not have representions in the British Parliament.
Tea Act
On May 10,1773, this act was designed to help the East Indian Company sell a back-log of tea, but Hirt lack colonial merchants and angered the colonists.
Boston Tea Party
The British restructured the Tea Act so that the British East Indian Company would not have to pay the heavy taxes, so the colonists dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbar, in 1773.
Intolerable Acts
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed 5 laws, in 1774, including the Boston Port Act, which closes Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for, The Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act.
Stamp Act
Required the colonists to pay tax on certain types if documents and paper.
Declaration Of Independence
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson outlined the grievances that the colonists had against England, and Proclaimed their freedom.
Boston Massacre
Angery colonists threw snowballs at a sentry posted at the customs office and when British help came, they ended up shooting 5 colonists
Patrick Henry
A radical colonist, from Virginia, who gave a fiery speech with the words “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”
Thomas Paine
A British journalist who commended the monarchy, and in particular, George III, and called for Americas independence.
Common Sense
A 50 page pamphlet by Thomas Paine, calling for a declaration of independence.
American Revolution
When boycotts and protests did not work to change the British rule over the colonies, representatives from the 13 colonies gathered to declare independence from England, and fighting broke out between the two.
Middle Colonies
Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania known as the “Breadbasket Colonies”, because they grew so much grain.
Lexington-Concord
On a small field between the two towns, in 1775, 700 British soliders lined up across from about 70 minuet men, a shot was fired, and the Revolutionary War began, later it was called, “The shot heard around the world.”
Saratoga
17,000 American soldiers, led by Horatio Gates, stopped a British army , led by General Burgoyne, before they reached the Albany, Nw York, giving colonists new enthusiasm for the war and becoming a turning point for American freedom, in 1777
Yorktown
British General, Charles Cornwallis, marched his army north from North Carolina to Virginia, but was met by a combined French and American force of 17,000 men, was defeated and surrendered.
Battle of Trenton
On Christmas night, George Washington led his army across the Delaware river, and allowed Jim to attack and defeat the Hessian army, on December 26, 1776.
George Washington
He was the leader of the continental army, who beat the British at Yorktown.
George III
The King of England when the colonists declares their independence.
Manga Carta
In 1216, English noblemen forced King John to sign his agreement limiting the power of the monarchy.
Articles of Confederation
In 1777, the colonies agrees to loose association of sovereign states, with certain common goals which serves as the government during the Revolutionary War.
