Revolutions in the Americas Flashcards
Unit 2
French and Indian war
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years’ War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
Stamp Act
Sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies
Intolerable Acts
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765
Protest Documents and events
1.Declaration of Independence.
2.Constitution of the United States.
3.Bill of Rights.
4. Liberty Tree
Enlightenment Philosophy
The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of rationalism and of empiricism, and political ideals such as natural law, liberty, and progress, toleration and fraternity, constitutional government, and the formal separation of church and state.
Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
Patrick Henry, Liberty or Death speech
“Give me liberty or give me death!” is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia
No Taxation without Representation
a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution, and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain.
American Revolution Key Battles
-Battle of Yorktown
-Battle of Saratoga
-Battle of Cowpens
-Lexington and Concord
-Battle of Monmouth
-Battle of Trenton
-Battle of Bunker Hill
-The Battle Of Saratoga
-Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Haitian Revolution
was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
Latin American Revolution- Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
Between 1808 and 1836, all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and Cuba gained their independence. San Martín was recognized as a national hero of Argentina and, along with Simón Bolívar, was regarded as one of the liberators in the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
