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2nd six weeks test
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Roanoke | Croatoan; The Lost Colony |
| Plymouth | Pilgrims; 1620 |
| Magna Carta | 1215; limited the power of the English King; foundation for English Bill of Rights |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | American colonies are free and have rights to all lands East of the Mississippi river |
| Navigation Acts | All shipping done in English or Colonial Ships; tobacco, wood, and sugar all sold in English land; European imports must pass through England 1st, all goods not shipped through England are taxed |
| Mayflower Compact | Agreement signed on the Mayflower ship by Pilgrims |
| Join or Die Cartoon | Drawn by Benjamin Franklin; the colonies join together and fight against the French in the French and Indian war |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Colonists could go past the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War |
| Intolerable Acts | Parliament closed the Boston Harbor,1774 |
| Enlightenment | Science, john Locke, Newton |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival, Johnathan Edwards, George Whitefield |
| Boston Massacre | March, 1770; a symbol for british tyranny |
| Boston Tea Party | December, 1773 |
| Stamp Act | 1765, taxed all documents and paper products |
| 1st Continental Congress | September 1774, 55colonial delegates gathered in Philadelphia |
| Lexington and Concord | 1775, British march to arrest Patriot leaders and destroy the militia's supplies; signaled the start of the Revolutionary war |
| Taxation without Representation | Colonists opposed taxes since they didn't have representation in the Parliament |
| Declaration of Independence | July 4,1776; people should be able to change the government when the government doesn't protect their rights |
| Unalienable Rights | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; Cannot be denied by government, given when u are born, cannot be taken away |
| Haym Soloman | rich Jewish who helped finance the American Revolution with interest-free loans |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Raised an army of Spanish soldiers for the Patriot cause |
| King George III | King during American Revolution; pulled his statue down!! |
| Mercy Otis Warren | leader in the Daughters of Liberty; wrote poems and plays supporting Revolution |
| French and Indian war | Began in 1754; British vs. French, British won |
| American Grievances against King George III | taxed colonists without consent; quartered soldiers among colonists ; deprived colonists of trial by jury; dissolved colonists Representative assemblies |
| British Advantages | more people; 1/3 of colonists were Loyalists ;trained army; strong Navy |
| American Advantages | Large territory to control; better military leaders; fighting on familiar soil |
| George Washington read "The Crisis" by Thomas Paine | to encourage troops to fight and be strong on after several defeats |
| Trenton and Princeton | Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas,1776 and surprised a Garrison of Hessian mercenaries; victory for Patriots |
| Hessian Mercanaries | professional soldiers from Germany hired to fight for Britain |
| Battle of Saratoga | October, 1777; an American Victory; French openly sent money and supplies to America after the battle; took place in New York |
| Valley Forge | Winter,1778;took place in Pennsylvania; few supplies, disease, bitter cold, little food |
| Yorktown | Ended the American Revolution; October, 1781 |
| Benedict Arnold | helped defeat the British at Saratoga and became a traitor |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French volounteer who came to USA in177; served with George Washington |
| Baron Friedrich von Steuben | introduced bayonets as a new fighting tactic for Patriots |
| Strategy | a plan of action; how I will do something |
| John Paul Jones | Naval officer; beat British ship Serapis; " I have not yet bagan to fight!"; first naval hero |
| Ethan Allen | Green Mountain boys; helped take Fort Ticonderoga |
| George Rodgers Clark | Seized British forts along frontier |
| War in the South | more guerrilla warfare than war in the North |
| James Armistead | African slave who spied and helped win the battle of Yorktown |
| Benjamin Franklin | Delegate from Pennsylvania; helped draft the Declaration of Independence; urged the French to join the American Revolution on the Patriot side |
| "Common Sense" | written ny Thomas Paine; encouraged the colonists to declare their independence |
| Treaty of Paris, 1783 | gave lands east of the Mississippi River to the colonists; ended the Revolutionary War |
| Indigo | Grown in South NOT Virginia |
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