Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
USH Ch.6
BJU USH Ch.6 Review
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Gaspee Incident | British customs ship that ran aground in Rhode Island and was burned by locals. |
| Committee of Correspondence | provided information to other areas of the colony on British threats to liberty |
| Tea Act of 1773 | granted the East India Company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in America |
| Coercive Acts | a series of acts to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party AKA The Intolerable Acts |
| Thomas Gage | British general who was sent to Boston with his army to replace Thomas Hutchinson (Governor) |
| Boston Tea Party | Demonstration by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | Patriot name for Coercive Acts |
| Quebec Act | One provision made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec. This enraged the colonists because many had fled from Catholic oppression in Europe. The colonists also feared that Parliament would establish a state religion in the colonies. |
| First Continental Congress | formed in 1774, established militias; asserted the rights of the colonies to govern themselves |
| Declaration of American Rights | Drafted at 1st Continental Congress in 1774 and stated that Parliament had no authority over internal Colonial affairs. |
| Patrick Henry | Outspoken member of House of Burgesses; inspired colonial patriotism with "Give me liberty or give me death" speech |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | a 1775 conflict between colonial minutemen & British soldiers attempting to take the colonists' large store of arms; began the Revolutionary War |
| Patriots | Colonists who wanted independence from Britain |
| Loyalists (or Tories) | Colonists who were loyal to Britain |
| Hessians | hired German soldiers who fought for the British |
| Fort Ticonderoga | American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775 providing artillery for the Patriot forces near Boston |
| Ethan Allen | captured Fort Ticonderoga with the "Green Mountain Boys" |
| George Washington | elected commander of the Continental Army |
| Bunker Hill | the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775); Americans lost because they ran out of ammunition |
| Henry Knox | American ordnance chief; responsible for transporting British cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston for General Washinton |
| Olive Branch Petition (July 1775) | pledged loyalty to King George and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament's abusive exercise of power |
| Common Sense | pamphlet by Thomas Paine that solidified public opinion toward independence |
| Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense; Englishman turned Patriot |
| John Adams | helped write the Declaration of Independence along with Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingstone, and Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Jefferson | primary author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776 document written by primarily by Thomas Jefferson outlining reasons for the colonies to break political ties with England |
| William Howe | British general who replaced General Gage; took New York and Philadelphia |
| Trenton | captured when Patriots defeated Hessian forces on Christmas night 1776; lifted morale of Continential army |
| Princeton | captured when Washington surprised the thinly defended supply base of Cornwallis; lifted the morale of Continental army |
| John Burgoyne | British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792) |
| Battle of Brandywine | Cornwallis snuck up on Washington's camp at Brandywine Creek allowing British to take Philadelphia |
| Benedict Arnold | Continental army general and traitor in the American Revolution; had planned to turn over West Point (a fort on the Hudson River) |
| Horatio Gates | American commander who won at Saratoga, but lost to Cornwallis at Camden |
| Daniel Morgan | American leader who was vital in winning battles of Saratoga and Cowpens |
| Saratoga campaign | Turning point of the war; Burgoyne forced to surrender his entire Northern Army; French agree to help America |
| Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, many died here from disease and malnutriton |
| Baron von Steuben | German who came to Valley Forge to serve as drillmaster to train the Continental Army |
| Battle of Monmouth | Indecisive battle fought in June of 1778 in extreme heat which displayed professionalism of the newly trained Continental army |
| George Rogers Clark | Leader of a small Patriot force that captured British-controlled Fort Vincennes in the Ohio Valley in 1779 and secured the Northwest Territory for America |
| Vincennes | victory at this fort in the West gave the Americans control of the Ohio River Valley during the war |
| Charles Cornwallis | commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence |
| Camden | Where Cornwallis met Gates' Patriot force on August 16th 1780 and crushed it |
| Francis Marion | South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his guerrilla attacks on the British during the American Revolution. |
| Kings Mountain | a 1780 Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina in which Patriots defeated a Loyalist militia |
| Nathanael Greene | American general of Rhode Island, helped to turn the tide against Cornwallis and his British army; "Fighting Quaker" |
| Yorktown | place where the British, under Cornwallis, surrendered to American and French troops in October 1783 after a three week siege |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who served under George Washington and helped surround the British at Yorktown |
| The Treaty of Paris, 1783 | Ended the American Revolution and forced Britain to recognized the United States as an independent nation |
Created by:
vwalker5
Popular U.S. History sets