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Chp18 Vocab B
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707, Great Britain) and its colonies, a process which had started in 1651. | Navigation Acts |
| a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. | Continental Congress |
| a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain | Common Sense |
| was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. It was the result of tensions that had been growing between the colonist and the English troops | Boston Massacre |
| was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies | Boston Tea Party |
| the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the Constitution | George Washington |
| a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. | Declaration of Independence |
| was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, He was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. | Ben Franklin |
| comprising two significant battles during September and October of 1777, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. | Battle of Saratoga |
| in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. | Valley Forge |
| the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. | Bill of Rights |
| signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. | Treaty of Paris |
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