SS AMERICAN RE Flashcards
Sugar act stamp act Boston massacre
Events leading up to the American revolution
Prohibited westward expansion across Appalachian Mountains
King George signed the proclamation of 1763
Great Britain gained new territory followed…
The French and Indian war
Reason for proclamation of 1763
To prevent conflict with the American colonist and native Americans
The coercive acts of 1774 eliminated the power of…
Massachusetts colonist to govern themselves
Port of Boston closed until colonist paid for Boston Tea Party, Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
Stamp act->
Colonist boycott
Intolerable acts
(answer=colonist response)
Colonist send rep to first continental congress
Many colonists participated in…
Actions that opposed the stamp act.
Colonies served mother country
Mercantilism
Colonist were opposed to…
colonial laws created by only parliament
The consent of the governed. Sugar, stamp and Townshend acts were to recover the cost of defending the colonies, this is->
“Taxation without representation”
Natural and possessed at birth
Unalienable Rights
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
Unalienable Rights
Crispus Attucks
A former slave, first of five unarmed American civilians shot at Boston massacre.
James Armistead
An American slave, pretending to be a runaway slave, spied on British troops movements and reported to Americans
Revolutionary war begins with this conflict
Lexington and concord
Continental troops endured a harsh winter
Valley Forge
Turning point in the revolution
Saratoga
American victory is secured on the final battle
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris 1783
Independence
Great Britain and US signed treaty after general Cornwallis…
Surrender at battle of Yorktown
main reason for writing the Declaration Of Independence…
To state the colonist reasons for separating from Great Britain
The year that separation from Great Britain was declared
1776
