Revolutionary War Flashcards
homework
What did the stamp act require colonists to do?
- purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanacs
- forced colonists to pay stamp duties on playing cards and dice
What secret resistance group was founded in boston as a result of the Stamp Act?
Sons of Liberty
What did the Stamp Act Congress issue and what did it state?
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances
- Parliament couldn’t impose taxes because colonists were not represented in it
What is a boycott?
“collective refusal to use, buy, or deal with, especially as an act of protest
What forced parliament to repeal the Stamp Act?
the widespread boycott of importing British manufactured goods
What were the Townshend Acts?
- direct taxes on lead, paint, glass, and paper
- 3 penny tax on tea
What did Mercy Otis Warren urge women to do and why?
- to boycott furs, feathers, rich satins, and capes
- instead make cloth from spinning bees
- to show determination to boycott British goods
What was the Boston Massacre?
- fist fight over jobs between British soldiers and colonists
- British guards killed 4 colonists
- colonists used propaganda against the British
What prompted the Boston Massacre?
fight for jobs between poorly paid British soldiers looking for side jobs and colonists
What did Prime Minister Lord Frederick North enact and for what purpose?
- rule allowing tea to be sold directly from British to colonists free of taxes
- to keep British tea store houses from going bankrupt
Describe the Boston Tea Party
Colonist rebels disguised as indians snuck onto British ships storing tea and threw 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor
What were the Intolerable Acts
-Boston Harbor shut down
-Quartering Act
-Thomas Gage was put in as governor of Massachusetts
This was King George III’s response to the Boston Tea Party
What is martial law?
rule imposed by military forces
What did the committees of correspondence assemble and what was drawn up?
Continental Congress; Declaration of Independence
Who were the minutemen?
- civilian soldiers (militia)
- stock piled firearms and gunpowder
Why did the British march on Concord?
to destroy all hidden ammunition stockpiles
Describe the events of the Battles at Lexington and Concord
- British learned of hidden munitions
- march to concord
- minutemen learned of marches
- town began to prepare for battle
Who was the royal governor of NJ?
William Franklin
What actions did the Second continental Congress take?
- set up it own government and that congress declared the colonies independent
- militiamen encamped around Boston were declared as the Continental army
- also appointed George Washington leader
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
-2,400 troops fought 3 attacks
-only the third succeeded due to the colonists running out of ammunition
-deadliest battle happened on braves hill
British had more casualties, but still won
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
- given to King George III of england by the Continental Congress
- the king rejected it
- the king firedback by suggesting a naval blockade
- Colonists still wanted harmony, and hoped for peace, but readied for war
What did Thomas Paine argue in Common Sense?
- America needed to be independent
- so it could be trade freely
- for equal social and economical opportunities
- wanted a republic which was America’s destiny
What ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence?
- John Locke: natural rights (life, liberty, and property)
- government only has power because the people choose for them to have it
- people have right to overthrow if a government if they didn’t protect natural rights
Who were the Patriots?
- wanted independence (but still loved england)
- supported the colonies not the crown
