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U.S. History 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Iroquois | group of american indian people who lived in upstate New York and neighboring lands, allied with Britain in the French and Indian War |
| George Washington | granted control of the british army for the French and Indian War, led a company to drive out the French from Fort Duquesne |
| French and Indian War | war fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its American Indian allies, gaining control of eastern North America |
| Edward Braddock | British commander in North America during the French and Indian War, came to Virginia in 1754 to lead the British forces on the continent, killed during an attempted assault on Fort Duquesne |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | uprising in 1763 by American Indians in the Great Lakes region |
| Proclamation of 1763 | declaration by the British king ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains, established quebec and east and west florida |
| Albany Plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal to form one government for a group of Britain's colonies in North America |
| salutary neglect | a british policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically |
| Stamp Act | 1765 law passed by Parliament the required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials |
| John Adams | prominent Massachusetts lawyer, cousin of Samuel Adams, Patriot, believed Americans could unite to defeat Great Britain |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty, or give me death." Virginia representative, drafted Virginia Resolves, believed only colonial assemblies had the right to tax colonists, Virginia delegate, united the states as a whole country |
| Sons of Liberty | organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other british laws and taxes |
| nonimportation agreements | colonial consumer boycotts of british exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament |
| Boston Massacre | incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers killed five colonists in Boston |
| Committees of correspondence | network of local groups that informed colonists of british measures and the opposition to them in the years before the Revolutionary War |
| Boston Tea Party | protest against british taxes in which bostonian protesters dumped tea into the harbor on December 16, 1773 |
| Intolerable Acts | American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies |
| First Continental Congress | group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774 |
| Paul Revere | rode into the countryside to warn people about British troops approaching, american silversmith who lived and worked in Boston |
| militia | trained citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| Second Continental Congress | assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775 in Philadelphia following the Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| Continental Army | army that represented the colonies during the Revolutionary War |
| Thomas Paine | english-american author and political thinker who is most famous for writing Common Sense |
| republic | form of government in which officials are elected by the people |
| Declaration of Independence | document drawn up by the Second Continental Congress, and approved in 1776, that announced American independence and explained the reasons for it |
| Thomas Jefferson | american farmer, landholder, author, architect, lawyer, and statesman who advocated for American independence in the 1770s, represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress, drafted and revised the Declaration of Independence |
| natural rights | universal rights, such as life and liberty, that derive from nature rather than from government, according to philosophers |
| William Howe | commander-in-chief of the British army at the time of the Revolutionary War |
| mercenary | professional soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army |
| Battle of Trenton | 1776 Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey, won by the Continental Army |
| Charles Cornwallis | fought in the Seven Years War, was sent to fight in the Revolutionary War with Britain, beat Washington at the Battle of Princeton |
| Battle of Princeton | 1777 Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey, won by the Continental Army |
| Saratoga | 1777 Revolutionary War battle considered to be the turning point in the war because the Patriot win convinced the French to ally officially with the United States |
| Marquis de Lafayette | general who fought under Washington, helped to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 |
| Benjamin Franklin | drafted the Albany Plan of Union, leading American negotiator in Paris, signed the Declaration of Independence and Treaty of Paris |
| Valley Forge | location in Pennsylvania where General Washington's army spent a difficult winter in 1777-1778 |
| Monmouth | 1778 Revolutionary War battle site in New Jersey where neither side won a clear victory |
| King's Mountain | 1780 Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina in which Patriots defeated a loyalist militia |
| Yorktown | site in Virginia where, in 1781, General Cornwallis's British forces surrendered to General Washington |
| Treaty of Paris | 1783 peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and affirmed American independence |
| manumission | the act of freeing someone from slavery |
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