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Am Hist leap unit 1
Review of Leap Information American History unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A system in which trade with a colony is carefully controlled to gain wealth for a mother country | Mercantilism |
| The war for American independence fought between England and the American Colonies | American Revolution |
| Tax place on paper goods by England in an effort to tax the colonies | Stamp Act |
| Places duties (taxes) on glass lead paper and tea | Townshend Acts |
| Tax placed on Tea sent to the colonies by England | Tea Act |
| Called the Coersive Acts by the British, Were aimed at forcing the colonies to obey the King. (Closed Boston Harbor, dismissed the charter of Boston, Forced colonist to quarter soldiers and put British General Gage as the Governor of Massassachusets | Intolerable Acts |
| Forbid the colonies from claiming land west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was meant to protect the colonies instead it angered them. | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Author of the phamplet Common Sense. It raised common sense arguments for colonial independence,like how can an island rule a country? | Thomas Paine |
| Colonist who supported the cause of indepence from England | Patroits |
| The Father of our country | George Washington |
| Colonist who supported the King and did not want to break from England | Loyalist |
| Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Colonial General that was a traitor to the colonial cause. Hero of the Colonial Victory at Fort Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| Colonist dressed as Indians dump tea into boston Harbor to protest Britiain's attempt to tax the colonist | Boston Tea Party |
| The last major battle of the American Revolution. A colonial army and French forces defeat the British under British General Cornwallis | Yorktown |
| Document written by Thomas Jefferson, in which America declares it's independence from Great Britain | Declaration of Independence |
| Created in Massachusetts, these groups helped towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws | Committees of Correspondence |
| Leader of the Continental Army and first President of the United States | George Washington |
| The Turning point of the American Revolution. A victory in the American Revolution for Colonial forces it convinced the French that the Colonist could win and helped them to decide to join the colonial cause | The Battle of Saratoga |
| American colonial leader in the West he formed groups to fight the British including the Over Mountain Men | George Rogers Clark |
| Mountains that formed the border of western settlement of the colonies as determined by the Procliamation of 1763 | Appalachian Mountains |
| Fort in New York State Taken by Colonial General Benedict Arnold. It gave much needed supplies to the colonial effort | Fort Ticonderoga |
| Secret Society that was formed in support of the Colonial effort. They sometimes used violence to threathen British Tax collectors | Sons of Liberty |
| Colonial leader and President of the Second Continental Congress. Well Known for signing his Name very large on the Declaration of Indepence | John Hancock |
| Represnative of Virginia at the first Continental Congress. He Utter the famous words " I know not what course others may take, but as for me give me liberty or give me death." | Patrick Henry |
| Colonial leader, founder of the Committees of Coorespondence, led the agitation that caused the Boston Tea Party, Signed the Declaration of Independence | Samuel Adams |
| Philosopher, scientist, inventor, writer, publisher,member of the committee to draft the Constitution | Ben Franklin |
| American Businessmen that traded american materials in Triangular trade for goods from England and Africa | American Merchants |
| site of colonial conflict with indian tribes as colonial pioneers moved west. It resulted in the Proclimation of 1763 forbidding expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains | Ohio River Valley |
| Why did the British Recruit slave? | The British recruited slaves in their campain in the South during the American Revolution because they thought that they would willingly join them in helping to defeat the colonist |
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