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Revolutionary Era
Chapter 3: Ejnes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhode Island | -leader in the Revolutionary movement -had a high degree of self rule so more to lose when England increased supervision and control -RI:1763 |
| Sugar Act | -put restrictions on molasses trade -engaged in repeated measures of open defiance -people protested against it -Newport:1764 |
| Liberty | -scuttled and torched by the British customs sloop because of the sugar act -Newport Harbor:July,1769 |
| British | revenue Schooner burned by RI people in protest of the sugar act -Warwick's Namquid Point:1772 |
| Tea Party | -caused by the sugar act -Providence:March,1775 |
| Providence Town Meeting | -first governmental group to call for general congress for colonies to resist the coercive/intolerable acts -to resist the British policy -Providence:May 17,1774 |
| General Assembly | -Samuel Ward and Stephen Hopkins were appointed by the General Assembly to be delegates to anticipated Continental Congress -Newport:June 15,1774 |
| Army of Observation | -the colonial legislature authorized raising a 1,500 man "army of observation" -Nathanel Greene as commander -RI:April,1775 |
| King George 3rd RI | -KG3rd is the British king -RI became the first town to renounce allegiance to King George 3rd -RI:May 4,1776 |
| Declaration of Independence | -was ratified by the Assembly(General Assembly) -RI:July 18,1776 |
| Black Regiment | -voulenteers included a significant number of Negro and Indian slaves -a detachment of the 1st RI regiment -Revolutionary War |
| Esek Hopkins | -1st commander in chief of the Continental Navy -brother of Stephen, the signer of the Declaration of Independence -RI |
| Nathanel Greene Kentish Guards Continental army | -Nathanael Greene of the Kentish Guards became Washington's second-in-command and chief of the Continental army -in the South:Revolutionary War |
| the British | occupied Newport -Newport:Dec. 1776 to Oct. 1779 |
| Battle of RI | -a long seige to evict the British culminated in August 1778 -a large but inconclusive battle -a contest which was the first combined effort of the Americans and their French allies -RI/Newport: August 1778 |
| French Army Rochambeau | -the French army under Rochambeau landed there and made the port town its base -they went from Newport, Providence, and other RI encampments -Newport/Providence/RI: July 1780 |
| General Assembly | -removed disability against Roman Catholics giving them the rights, privileges of Protestant citizens -whatever anti-catholicism existed in RI was mollified by assistance rendered to the struggling colonials by Catholic France and by the... |
| ...benevolent presence of large numbers of French troops -RI: Feb. 1783 | |
| Emancipation Act | -a preface invoking sentiments of Locke that all men are entitled to life.liberty.and property -all born to slave mothers after March 1, 1784 were freed -RI: Oct. 1787 |
| Quaker Community RI General Assembly | -to ban slave trade -effect was prohibiting any RI citizen from engaging in their barbarous traffic -RI: Oct. 1787 |
| Decline of Newport | -its exposed location, the incidence of Toryism among its Townspeople, and its temporary occupation by the British combined to produce both a voulentary and at times, a forced exodus of its inhabitants -population:1774: 9,209; 1782: 5,532 -Providence:17 |
| The population of Providence | -population remained stable -sheltered at head of the bay -center of revolutionary activity -Providence:during Revolutionary War |
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